/sci/ - Science & Math

>>11036051
Yes, phones and browsing breaks have a bad effect on productivity.

When you take a break to read some shit on internet you stay in focused mode and aren't actually recovering, you just excite your brain with new stimulis.
A good break should be boring and introspective, not about binging informations.

One good way to improve focus is meditation too, try 10-15 minutes a day, a good time is first thing in the morning.

Try 50min/10min, do the hardest shit first thing in the morning, I can personally go for a 1h30 stint in the morning and then decrease to 50 minutes stints and then 25 by mid afternoon and I do one or two 10 minutes stints around dinner.

I have struggled most of my med school years with the workload too, I used to be a complete slacker in school and cruised easily through it, I only began working in first year of med school (there is a ranked exam with 200 places for around 1200 students) but it was more like a sprint, the following years are increasingly harder and you have to find a balance and make efficiency gains.

I had to cut video games, youtube and other shits. I still go on the chans during the weekend to laugh a bit but ultimately I must be quite strict with myself as I'm the addictive/procrastinator type and easily fall into binging.
It gets easier with time if you keep working but it never becomes easy.

Some people in med schools are freaks and have close to edietic memory, other are shameless cheaters, I wouldn't waste my time comparing myself to them.