Tuesday, April 24, 2012
I can't focus on my studies

Question: I wanted to focus on my studies, but my tiny house doesn’t provide a study room for me to do that. It’s quite noisy in the house and it often distracts me. What should I do?

Answer:

I believe many of us are having the same problem as you. It is quite hard for us to be having a study room of our own isn’t it? Most of us have been in the same situation.

Study is a kind of self challenge. For example, you may have the best study room that provides the greatest books or even an outstanding home tutor. But if you aren’t serious about your studies, all these would just go to waste.

Indeed, our surrounding is one of the things that allow us to focus on our studies. However, we must remember that it is just one out of the many requirements, it’s not the only thing we need. Those who had a proper study room or a better environment didn’t seem to promise an outstanding academic result either. I believe that some of your friends are the outstanding students who never really get to own a proper study environment. Thus, to study or not, it is up to one’s will.

If you have a great determination to study, you will give your best to succeed at all cost. The great inventor, Thomas Edison was just the same to his studies. He never really had a proper environment, but he grabbed every chance he had to study even when he was on board of a train. This is something we must practice together, to appreciate the time we have and use the fullest out of it regardless of the environment! It’s the heart that matters! Those who are determined to overcome all sort of hardship for the sake of advancement will unleash their great potential.

I’m sure you have had experience like the following: when you’re focusing intensely in that television programme or a game, you wouldn’t even heard it if someone’s calling you! This could work the same during our studies. When you are putting yourself on the table and ready for it, you will naturally eliminate the distractions around you. Hence, the foremost condition to study is our attitude.

Other than that, creativity helps too. While being in a limited space in the house, think of ways to improve it or how you could study better. Everything starts with an idea.

For example, we could get use of the library if we knew that the house would be crowded. Or we could discuss with our family members about balancing each other’s time table so that distractions can be lowered. If you couldn’t study during daytime because of the noise, study at night then.

Mr. Ikeda once said that studying within a bad environment is a kind of training. In other words, we must appreciate about the environment we had. Mr. Ikeda wasn’t from a wealthy family, together with the war at that moment; living is already a tough challenge. However, he had never thought of giving up on his studies. At that very moment, he read all sort of books to enrich himself. With the help and guidance from his mentor, Mr. Toda, he became a knowledgeable person.

On our journey of life, we will face all sorts of challenges and hardships. Sometimes a blizzard comes; sometimes the night can be long, things may not go the way we expect it to be all the time. This is the very crucial time we construct our foundation. Let’s become a person that challenges through every troublesome hindrance for the sake of opening up the great journey ahead of us.

Perhaps you’re feeling hard to study right now. You may wish that a quiet environment could make things better. However, if we could break through the dreadful environment for now, we will leave a very stable foundation under us. Hence, never complain about the environment, in contrary, we must treat it as the fertilizer of our growth. I hope that you could have a strong heart that carries a persisting spirit. Never lose to the environment!

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Rainbow.

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