Laziness and studying from a bioenergetic view
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Do you beautiful people know a "Peaty" way to alleviate laziness?
This is especially when studying things I don't want to but have to, very childish yes but has been something to deal with as long as I remember.I know Peat himself studied sporadically reading/doing things of his own interest, but there's always a component of discipline I have missed.
Maybe something to help information retention and recall?
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I used to be extremely lazy when I was a drug addict, even during periods where no one could tell I was a drug addict (prescription meds for example.)
Now that I'm sober, I've slowly become much much much more productive even though I'm still lazy. I've noticed that my laziness has MUCH more to do with my mental health than my physical health. I had a very intense leg day two days ago, and I have a very badly broken pinky toe. Nonetheless, today I'm in a great mood and I've done all my laundry, car-wash, cleaned my entire apartment and paid online bills.
Therefore I am a firm believer (anecdotally) that laziness can be alleviated through doing things that you like AND that make you happy after you're done doing them.
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The peatiest form of studying would be not having to study anything that one doesn’t want to but I know how you feel because most students etc have to do it anyway and I’ve been in medschool for more than three years now and even before that I hated studying and I hate the pointless classes I have to study for to this day. I’m very lazy to study.
I think as long as you have to drag yourself to it and rely on „discipline“ you will struggle with laziness which in that case is just you avoiding doing the task because you don’t like it. But we have to do it anyway so;
What I cannot recommend are those repetitive, serotonin type study routines such as „Study a little bit every day!“ or flashcards (Anki etc) because this is just brainless repetitive behavior that is unnatural and not peaty.
But what I can recommend are shorter-term bouts of hard study sessions before an exam. Just spam every and any peaty supp you know 1-2 weeks before an exam and study everyday in a library; Caffeine, chocolate, redbull, NDT, T3, any B vitamins, fruits, meth blue, anything dopaminergic; everything really. Don’t eat any grains for those two weeks.
Peaty study methods; those would be the ones that maximize creativity and thinking; try to understand the concepts; write down questions about the study topics and answer them; make mind maps; think, think about your thinking, how you get to those conclusions; analyze the info - sort the info; what is the same, what is different?
And break free from any routines and tasks which restrict you. Be free, that is peaty. I for example made a commitment to go to lectures as little as possible for the upcoming semester, because it doesn’t matter anyway. Then, at the end of the semester I will commit for 3 weeks or so to study for the exams.
I hope this helps
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I just drilled a massive whiteboard to my bedroom wall and it completely changes the way I feel about studying and I find I can approach problems from a different perspective than I can at a desk. Unless you’re at studying at Blake College, you’re gonna have to study stuff you don’t care for. Just build the habit of enjoying maximising academic performance and treat it as a game.
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@Abaris Thank you and yes, that does actually sound like what I've been doing most of my "study seasons". Just recently been so overwhelmed by sudden exam workload (first year med) and feeling quite retarded overall.
I've always hated the routine studying things and as @skylark said when I take it as a game it's much more rewarding and always feels like I've beaten the "system" when I pass my exams by luck and last day studying or even some cheeky 3rd party help.
Maybe it's time to invest in a chalkboard.
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@PissBoy It's about restricting the activation of the cholinergic system by protecting yourself against patterns of learned helplessness. You could try and visualise sodomising your school's faculty. Ray and Georgi talked about this.
The dark side of stress (learned helplessness) - Ray Peat
Intelligence and metabolism - Ray Peat
How do you know? Students, patients, and discovery - Ray Peat
