Focus session · exam revision · 50 min
50-minute exam revision session with rain on a window and a timer, when you are doing this for the first time
Sit down, press start, and test yourself for 50 minutes. Fifty minutes, the length of a therapy hour, with ten minutes off afterwards.
50:00
Press start. The timer keeps time so you do not have to look at a clock.
Take a moment to notice the room behind you, without turning around. If this is your first go, stay with the plainest version of the instructions. We'll go through it in order, without much decoration.
1 Before you start
- Put your phone in another room, or in a drawer you cannot reach without standing up.
- If you are dreading it, make the first action physical: open the file, sharpen the pencil.
- Put the thing you keep reaching for out of arm's reach.
- Accept that the first five minutes will feel like wading. Wading counts.
- Dim the screen slightly. Bright screens make long sessions harder than they need to be.
2 While the timer runs
- Notice the moment your hand moves toward your phone. That moment is the whole skill.
- If nothing is working, write badly on purpose for two minutes.
- The first urge to stop usually arrives early. Sit through it once and the second one is quieter.
- If a thought will not leave, give it one line on the page and return to the task.
3 When it ends
- Say the session is finished, out loud if you can. It marks the boundary.
- Note what you actually got done, not what you meant to get done.
- Roll your shoulders and your neck before the next block.
4What to put on
rain on a window — Steady rain is broadband noise with a slow natural rhythm. It masks speech and keyboard clatter without being interesting enough to listen to.
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