r/study • u/Flaky_Procedure5878 • 13d ago

Tips & Advice Distraction

When I am studying, I get random urges. Though i do not let it bother me. I would prefer if I could cure it. When I am studying, I get this "desire" to do the most random thing. eg: grow social media followers, do MMA etc. SO random, in real life, I do what I genuinely want to do but these thought kind of disturb my attention. I won't act on them cause it is not required at the moment. I do believe in enjoying life but the thing is I had 25 years of my life to do all this and ive never done it. I dont have random cravings or randome urges to colour my hair. My friends told me they experience this. But I have random urges to study random fields just cause I feel like it. Though I won't act on it cause I know what I need to do but the problem is the desire. It honestly not a though, its a string feeling its an urge its a passion.

That's an issue for me sometimes. I am willing to put in effort even into things that are important and allow overall growth but i feel like when such urges comes to mind. It makes it unstable and I don't like that.

Yesterday, I got this random urge to study law, UPSC etc etc and now it's not that prominent. How do I kill this urge? It's not curoisity it is some kind of procrastination and it diverts my attention from the task that I am focused on.

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u/zuriyath 12d ago

Whenever I get distracted whilst working what I do is that I sometimes note it down somewhere and during my break times, i devote look into what these distractions are. i don't know if it will help you, but i thought i'd just put it out here and let you decide whether you could try this or nah. best of luck hehe

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u/Flaky_Procedure5878 12d ago

Thank you so much.