Tips To Beat Short Attention Span Crisis During Online Learning

• Identify and Remove Distractions: Distractions are everywhere. Even if you are studying alone in your room with your laptop, there can be a number of factors that are distracting you — a noisy environment, number of thoughts running through your mind, constant notifications from your mobile etc. But most of you just ignore them and do nothing. That is one of the major reasons for low attention span. So instead of ignoring them, clearly identify all the sources of distraction and do something about each one of them.

• Use Laptop/Desktop Instead of Mobile: From my own experience, I will suggest all the aspirants use laptops/desktops over mobile phones. On larger screens, our attention span is far more as compared to small screens. As we all are very much accustomed to multitasking, distracting over mobile is much easier as compared to laptop/desktop. So, during the online studying, mobile is strict no.

• Disable Social Media Accounts: One of the major sources of distraction in this digital world is social media which buzzed around us in the form of Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat etc. where we spent our precious time of preparation unnecessarily. I am not asking you to completely shut off the social media apps but suggesting you to temporary disable them for your own good.

• Switch off your Mobile: Even though all of you have temporarily disabled your social media accounts, but still, there can be many distractions because of your mobile like news update, push notifications from apps, YouTube which you even can’t delete from your phone etc. So, it is advisable to switch off your phone while studying.

• Automate What you can: One of the many advantages of technology is that we can use it to make our life simple. So, use it to track your time as for how well you are utilizing it, keep track of your routine tasks and check them off after completion as this will keep you on your toes till you achieve your set target, set reminders etc. That means you won’t need to remember all these petty things, which will keep your mind at peace and you will be left with more focus for your studies.

• Rest Well:  Last but not least, take proper rest. As you all know studying at a laptop for long durations is quite difficult as it makes the body especially your eyes quite stressed out. So, power naps at regular intervals will keep you relaxed and much more focused.

Learning through online coaching can be a challenge if the focus is nowhere to be found, but it can also be fun and let you feel accomplished afterwards if you do it right. With the simple but effective techniques above you’ll be able to keep your attention and be a great student without investing all your free time in that.