Does it feel like your school day goes this slow?
Well, here are five proven ways to solve that problem!
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This first one I used all the time in school. I even used it all the jobs that I've ever had.
Don't look at the clock!
This tip is going to be on any list like this just because it is so fundamental to making time go by faster.
There's a reason that I put this one at number 1.
First of all, because it's so fundamental.
But, also, if you just do this one, "don't look at the clock," time is not really going to seem to go by any faster.
You need to combine it with some other things to make it really shine.
[silence]
See, that doesn't really do much.
As soon as you snap out of it, you're going to glance at the clock and realize that only a minute has gone by.
Try not to stare off into space.
No, what you really have to do is occupy your mind with something else, something that doesn't have anything to do with time.
The old cliche' is that "time flies when you're having fun."
Well, that's because when you're having fun, you're not worried about how much longer you have to have fun.
You just like having fun in the moment!
So, staring off into space isn't really a distraction for your mind.
And remember, I'm speaking from personal experience.
Any time that I've stared off into space I've found that only a couple of minutes have gone by.
Let's get into the meat of it here with number 3.
Pay attention and do the work.
Now, I hear some of you asking: CapOhTV, why would you tell us to pay attention and do the work when you've told us time and time again that the work is meaningless?
That's a fair argument.
A lot of the work you do in school is meaningless and I'm not going to step back from that position.
But at the same time, remember, this list is about how to make school go by faster.
So, if you're not looking at the clock and you're not staring off into space, you've got to occupy your mind with something.
And the most productive thing in school to occupy your mind with is whatever that the teacher gives you.
It's not that difficult to get really good grades in school if you just pay attention and do the work.
Now I'm not saying that the work you're doing is necessarily quality content, but it is distracting and will go make time go by faster for you.
And like I've said before, while you're part of the school system, if you just do what you're supposed to do,
the bare minimum of what you're supposed to do, they're going to stay off your case and you'll be free to do whatever else you want to do.
Not only do you have to pay attention and do the work in class, you've also got to be an active listener.
Now here's what I'm getting at: if you've got a teacher who actually knows their subject matter and teaches the class,
that is, they communicate the knowledge to the class through a lecture before they give you a worksheet or whatever, then you have the opportunity
to ask an open-ended question that could lead to a classroom that is likely to burn up 45 minutes or more of the class.
This will work in any class, but it works especially well in language arts or history, classes like that, where things are somewhat open to interpretation, or at least they can have multiple perspectives.
This is how I got through high school with straight A's and college with straight A's.
Ask the questions. Even if you're not that interested in the subject, you can still ask an open-ended question as long as you're listening actively.
You can even pretend to not agree with whatever the teacher is saying just to rile up some discussion.
Just like if you pay attention and do the work, there is real opportunity for you to learn by asking open-ended questions.
And if you don't learn anything worthwhile about the subject, well, at least you learned how to ask a good question.
I think number three and four are the real stars of this list, just because they have the greatest opportunity for you to learn something.
That's what I really want people to do is to learn something new everyday.
But number five... yeah... this one is kind of just a last resort.
If you want time to go by faster, here's what I used to do, and I still do it: create something to look forward to after school.
For me in high school, it was to go home and play video games.
I just wanted to get my work done so I didn't have to worry about and go home, sit down, log on, and level up.
Now it wasn't like that every single day. So you could look forward to other things like going to Wawa, going over to a friend's house,
you know, whatever.
So that in those moments where you do look at the clock, you can at least say, "Oh, well, it's only this much time until I get to do X, Y, or Z."
So there's my very basic take on how to make school go by faster.
Like I said, they're all proven by me, CapOhTV, plus I'm wearing a tie. Like, how can you not trust me?
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