Study & Effective Break-Taking Workbook

The following short writing exercise is designed to help you think about what things you could get out of this workshop that are valuable to you personally. Writing this out carefully can help making it easier for you to pick up on the things that are relevant to you and that you might want to try out in the future.

1. What would learning to take more effective breaks (and study more effectively) actually give you right now? What are some benefits that you – not someone else – would genuinely care about?

2. How would making your studying and break taking more effective help you to realise the benefits you just identified?

3. What is one concrete situation in the next 1–2 weeks where this could help you?

This exercise is designed to help deepen your understanding of the principles we just discussed, and to think about how you can apply them to your own learning without making things too difficult.

1. Please select two of the principles we discussed that interest / stood out to you most.

2. If you found a way of implementing these principles into your studying, what could potential benefits be that you really care about?

3. What are different ways of trying to implement these principles in your studying? For each principle, please describe:

a) how you can implement it in your own studying; and

b) how this can create the benefits you identified in the previous step.

Your earlier reflections

1. Look back at your earlier reflections and think back to the activities from the workshop. What are the main things you want to take with you into your own studying?

Take a moment to recap; no written response is needed here.

2. Which two break principles will you apply, and how? Your earlier choices are selected automatically; you can change them below. Write one If [condition], then [behaviour] plan for each principle. Then briefly visualise how you will put both plans into practice.

Brief visualisation

Where will you study? What will you see and hear? How will you feel? Imagine the cue for each plan, what you will do during your break, and how you will return to studying.

3. Now apply the break framework to one of your own upcoming study sessions:

1. Pick a realistic task that you might work on.

2. What state will help you do this easily?

3. Assume your state before the break is distracted, tired, and frustrated. How could you design your break to move towards this better state?

4. Now please integrate what you wrote above by explaining how you will apply the break framework to your own studying in the future and why this will help you to make your studying more beneficial.

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1. Why could effective break-taking benefit me personally?

2. How to and Benefits of Applying Break Principles to Own Studying

3. Reflection & Goal Setting Exercise: What are your major take aways and how are you going to apply them in your future studying?

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