How to Create A Recharge Environment Goal
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WHY?
If you are studying as hard as you should: you will burn out.
Most of the time, people go straight to their smartphones, or rely on "wrecking-ball" habits like pornography, drugs, or overeating.
Enough.
In ten steps, we'll show you how to swap these destructive desires and build stations to recharge your brain: be it rest, exercise, books, walking, or anything that is actually refreshing!
Exercise Pad
This pad is not only dense, it's amazing for burpees: the most effective full-body exercise and study recharge.
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Milliard Peanut
The peanut is strange: but highly functional. Use it for upper abdominal exercises, as a budget alternative to the Bosu Ball, for stretching, or study plank.
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Bosu Ball
This terrific workout investment is like buying a six pack.
A six pack won't get you a perfect MCAT score, but working out your abs is the same thing as flexing your spine: it is actually terrific for your Central Nervous System, posture, and mental acuity.
One of the best purchases I have ever made.
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Rest/Prayer Blanket
There's sleep.
And then there's rest.
There's a difference. It is not a bad idea to take a 15 minute break and pray about what you just learned. Try stretching out our shield blanket below, putting in ear plugs, and an eye mask; and visualizing all the AAMC topics you just covered.
I honestly can't think of a more recharging study habit.
Since the blanket in the photo is unavailable: we made our own.
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WATER
Don't forget to hydrate! Neurotransmitters can't fire neurons if your brain is the desert!
MCAT Study Environment
This journey is all about setting up an MCAT Recharge Station: ideally it should be next to your MCAT Study Environment - but every situation is different.
To find out how to set up this study environment, check out this Journey.
Hobby
While I'm not saying to go out and buy a piano, why not a keyboard? I personally am a painter - and love to just give myself a few minutes to make something - even if said creation ends up in the garbage.
Bag of Books
At hand's reach from my desk is a travel bag of fun books to reach for. Not only are you studying for CARS by enhancing your comprehension: you give yourself time to test how easily you "forget" the material you just learned.