Focus session · exam revision · 90 min
A 90-minute block for exam revision, with forest at dusk, when you are doing this for the first time
A single 90-minute block for exam revision — recall rather than re-reading.
90:00
Press start. The timer keeps time so you do not have to look at a clock.
Feel your ribs move. That is all the machinery you need to pay attention to right now. If this is your first go, stay with the plainest version of the instructions. This works better when you don't overthink it.
1 Before you start
- Clear the surface in front of you down to the thing you are working on.
- Lower the bar until starting feels almost silly, then start.
- Have a piece of paper beside you for the thoughts that will try to interrupt.
- Accept that the first five minutes will feel like wading. Wading counts.
- Close the door, or put headphones on, whichever signals "working" to the people around you.
2 While the timer runs
- If your attention keeps sliding, shorten the next block rather than abandoning this one.
- Notice the moment your hand moves toward your phone. That moment is the whole skill.
- If you start tidying your desk, that is avoidance. Sit back down.
- If the task suddenly feels impossible, make it smaller rather than stopping. One paragraph. One function. One row.
3 When it ends
- Stand up and move for at least two minutes. The break is part of the method, not a reward.
- Roll your shoulders and your neck before the next block.
- Note what you actually got done, not what you meant to get done.
4What to put on
forest at dusk — Birds settling, leaves moving, nothing sudden. It works because it sounds like a place you can safely ignore.
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