I understand where you’re coming from. It feels productive. It feels like the only way to cover everything, because you’re behind.
You stay up, you grind through the night, and you convince yourself that more hours = more results.
But this might be THE biggest myth students are fed.
Study after study shows that sleep is where your brain does the real work.
When you sleep, your mind literally replays and organizes everything you studied, strengthening the memory pathways. Without that, most of what you cram is gone the next day. (Basically quitting the game and not pressing save)
In one Harvard study, students who pulled an all-nighter performed almost 40% worse on memory tasks compared to those who slept. Another experiment found that problem-solving ability literally doubled after a full night’s rest compared to just 4–5 hours.
Translation? The smartest students aren’t the ones who stay up until 3am. They’re the ones who know that 8 hours of sleep and 2 hours of focused study is more powerful than 8 hours of exhausted, half-dead, caffeine fuelled, unhealthy, head ache inducing cramming.
So here’s my challenge to you this year:
Stop worshipping the all-nighter. Start respecting sleep as part of your study strategy. Treat your bed like part of your revision plan. Because it is.
I’ve never had to pull an all nighter or ever stayed up past 11 studying, so you don’t have to either (even if it feels tempting)
jspark
DON’T pull that all-nighter.
I understand where you’re coming from. It feels productive. It feels like the only way to cover everything, because you’re behind.
You stay up, you grind through the night, and you convince yourself that more hours = more results.
But this might be THE biggest myth students are fed.
Study after study shows that sleep is where your brain does the real work.
When you sleep, your mind literally replays and organizes everything you studied, strengthening the memory pathways. Without that, most of what you cram is gone the next day. (Basically quitting the game and not pressing save)
In one Harvard study, students who pulled an all-nighter performed almost 40% worse on memory tasks compared to those who slept. Another experiment found that problem-solving ability literally doubled after a full night’s rest compared to just 4–5 hours.
Translation? The smartest students aren’t the ones who stay up until 3am. They’re the ones who know that 8 hours of sleep and 2 hours of focused study is more powerful than 8 hours of exhausted, half-dead, caffeine fuelled, unhealthy, head ache inducing cramming.
So here’s my challenge to you this year:
Stop worshipping the all-nighter. Start respecting sleep as part of your study strategy.
Treat your bed like part of your revision plan. Because it is.
I’ve never had to pull an all nighter or ever stayed up past 11 studying, so you don’t have to either (even if it feels tempting)
TLDR get your zzzzzz!
Love you keep studying, get cooking good looking
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