Some notes on Alexander Argüelles' "Defragment Your Brain" - 04/14/19 Our emotions can hinder our concentration, and our study. These are two lifestyle changes and one technique you can use to reduce your stress and study better: *Cultivate a non-human relationship: Get a pet, and cultivate a relationship with it. We polyglots are usually too verbal, and communicating with a cat or a dog forces us to get inside our bodies and pay attention to our feelings. This will reduce your obsessive and unhealthy thoughts. *Exercise: Exercise daily, and avoid listening to audiobooks, podcasts or any kind of input while you are doing it. This will give your brain time to get into a more diffused way of thinking, which will help you reorganize your thoughts and make new connections between them. *Visualize: Visualization techniques can be helpful to calm down your mind and let go of negative thought patterns and emotions. If you are studying and you can't concentrate because some emotion or thought keeps interrupting you, close your eyes and visualize your thoughts and emotions as dots of light that get together to make a unified, armonious whole. You can use any image that inspires in you a sense of wholeness and peace of mind.