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Because I like to solve my own problems I looked into it and this is the key tip I have come up with:

Write in the active voice

Now if you're anything like me this makes absolutely no sense, but what it boils down to is starting with the subject of the sentence and then following with the verb. Eg:

If the water flows smoothly, the detached particles are uniformly removed across the soil (passive voice, 14 words).

Detached soil particles are uniformly removed by smooth flowing water (active voice, 10 words).

I've definitely written better examples than this, but I can't come up with them well off the top of my head 😅

Words counts are the work of the devil. If anyone has any ideas on how to cut down word counts I would love to hear them

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Words counts are the work of the devil. If anyone has any ideas on how to cut down word counts I would love to hear them

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There is, in my opinion, too much focus in the studyblr community on aesthetic workspaces, to the detriment of actual study. You can spend so long getting your study space looking nice that you lose the actual study time!

For those of you who can actively maintain a tidy study space without it taking all of your brain power, good for you, but for those of us who can't, there is no shame in messy study spaces as long as they're functional!!!

Here is my functional, productive, messy workspace (please feel free to share yours):

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Recently accidentally discovered the best executive dysfunction hack I’ve ever found

Ok so we’ve all heard of tips involving lists, make a list of everything you need to do, cross it out when you’re done, etc.

Well recently next to each item on my list, I wrote down how to start that task. This can be as simple as “get out my notebook and the assignment” or a little more detailed like “open chemistry textbook to page 235 and review the section on gibbs free energy”

Basically, you do all the executive functioning all at once before you start your tasks! Now when you get to the task, your brain doesn’t need to access that executive functioning to figure out how to start, you’ve already done it. Even stupid stuff like “take the assignment out of your backpack” helps a weird amount when it’s written down. Like it helps more than you think it should. I was rolling my eyes up until the point where it worked