How to Balance Video Games and Studying - College Info Geek
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- Опубліковано 11 лют 2015
- Gaming is awesome, but school, homework, and studying all take a lot of your time. What do you do when video games start eating into that time?
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Gaming when I have nothing else to do: "this game is meh"
Gaming when I should work instead: "OMG this is the most FUN I've ever had!!"
pistatic agree
LMFAO bruh i can relate
TRUE :(
same
Always just always
When I use gaming as I reward, I find myself thinking of a game all day....
I got a person like me
I got two persons like me
I got three
found four
make them 5
Thanks. Back to the game.
ur brilliant
Lol
Lol. Me.
wow bro so all that was a 🦆ing waist of ⌚ right😑😑😑😑
lol
played the game "real life" it had awesome graphics but the storyline sucked
Ign reviews
How many fps did you get in dence areas
Spoiler alert: Your first crush will never like you back.
Another spoiler: Or they will. But when they do, it's no happy ever after :(
@@purplepepper2503 Gotta love RNG
The graphics were great the first 23 years. Now all of a sudden I need this expensive DLC just to see anything
I have four area:
Number 1: fitness is in gym.
Number 2: studying is in library. or pc.
Number 3: my job in business.
Number 4: games in my bedroom.
Stays in bedroom all day
saheen shoukath 😂😂😂
The problem is..I don't really feel like playing games too, either do homework.
So I spent all day watching UA-cam videos and I found your channel. Yay\~.~\
Same
same
Homework suck, gaming sucks, but hey youtube still exist sooooo....
You are probably lazy just like me.
Sometimes i like gaming but most of the time i just watch youtube in my bed.
As long as a game doesn't become a priority and is still enjoyable to play, it is probably worth your time :)
agree
my advice is play a story driven game and avoid competitive game ( if you can )
@@sayaka1875 yeah those online competitive games are making me so toxic and dopamine overload so i quit now I play Minecraft.
@@bew5230 story games are more like movies or books than competitive games
@@sayaka1875 but well, everyone has his/her own favorite type of games..but i personally enjoy singleplayer games the most not because they aren't competitive or what but because tons of them have stories, like movies or books, but the difference is in games you are able to experience through them/feel like a part of them.
Dude, your tips are top notch.
You have definitely got me feeling inspired to create an impossible list. Cheers for the inspo
mayijustadd right on! Feel free to link me to it if you decide to put it online :)
This is an interesting concept. I will make it an effort to find the balance in my life to allow myself to play video games again. I had to quit cold turkey because I find myself losing my focus and only wanting to play. During the hiatus, I learned many valuable things about life. It was a much-needed hiatus, however, I think I am capable of dividing my time more appropriately. I just have to be better at time management.
I have been using your videos to help my teenage sons with their studies. Both they and I are gamers, but I found that I had to take all their games away (as well as quit my gaming) so we could all stay on task. I homeschool them. Strangely, none of us miss it and can get a lot more done during the day.
Thank you! hahaha I was about to give up gaming and go straight into studying, but I just need to find my balance. Again, thanks for the tips :D
bena013 definitely - forgoing all fun is a good way to invite excess stress into your life. Gotta have some fun things to keep it all in balance :)
BATTLEFRONT! big props for using that! Just got a boost of nostalgia!
what I do which works well for me is only playing games on the weekend, a lot of time I find myself bored in the weekday and my only option is to work. It makes playing games on the weekend really rewarding and I don't feel guilty.
I was supposed to be doing homework when I watched this video... LOL Irony.
Will be helpful though so thank you.
Hello! I am a high school student now, and I do something like that - I only play on weekends, and after I've done everything I planned to do on a particular day :) But your tips may be helpful when i graduate :D Also, I have to study for my exams now, so im going to play only 1 day / week and only few hours. But yeah, it needs some willpower to study or do other, creative stuff alone when knowing that your friends play LoL or WoW ( I am really into online gaming ). Anyway, thanks for a great video and have a nice day! :D
I like warzone, cold war, couter strike, and every competitive title out there and i find it imposible to, keep myself in shape, sleep 8 houers, do well at school and becoming better at these videogames and is something that frustrates tf out of me :(. I found this video very helpful thank you😁
Great!
Your videos are much helpful for School students.
1) Have an environment just for studying because some things trigger a certain mentality of studying and are less tempting...
2) increase the friction of getting into a video game... Make your work more attractive for you...
3) game after you're done working and make it a reward
4) play games that work well with your schedule...
5) turn your life into a game. Set goals and when you achieve them Cross em off
You know how random encounter events happen in games? Happened to randomly encounter this video which has greatly helped me for my main quest line in life! Guess all that side tracking lead me somewhere I suppose.
Thomas Frank! thanks for making this video! . It helped me alot!! :)
Great videos! you made me subscribe to your channel. I also play games in the same computer where I use for study but the problem is, I really get sleepy whenever I study for exams. To counter this, I play games to counter my sleepiness and then study after a...let's say maybe a 45 min. match in DOTA 2. Now the problem is I don't get to study for the exams either because I accidentally fall asleep or because I waste my time playing games staying awake. Any tips to counter this sleepiness problem? I would also love if you could make a videos regarding all-nighter or countering sleepiness when studying. Thank you so much for the videos!
Love the Xenoblade reference :D Great video by the way
Wow I did not think such a video would exist on you tube, rare nowadays. Very informational video my friend, make more please, subbed. I am a gamer too^^
Thank you for sharing!
This was a great video - Yet I'm not gonna lie I think it's much better to just quit video games altogether while in school and when you have a bomb a** job career path all set then it's a lot easier to find time to game after work. Just my thoughts though.
+cpthemonstergamer I agree man. I think But games (at least for me) have introduced me to so many different worlds, concepts, and inspirations. It's kind of hard to say good-bye to all that. Moderation is key
Absolutely, very true!
Work hard play hard I guess.
cpthemonstergamer I think there are two types of gamers. One who plays as an escape from reality and the other who plays for the gameplay, artistic value, whatever you wanna call it. :D
+cpthemonstergamer I used to think that way till I let myself miss out on so many good games and literally wasted my time doing things like FB IG (iPhone games :'D mindlessly tapping) and many other distractions because I thought they didn't really count as long as I'm not gaming on a console but in the end if I took all that time Like Thomas says and scheduled it properly I could have played and studied well at the same time.
+Log Arithms agreed. i game to escape from reality. thats why im watching this video
Thanks,this video is old but it is gold✨️✨️
i like this video, short and simple thanks man
Thanks dude, this was just what I needed.
I am glad is discovered your channel
thanks for the video man! very helpful as always. Gonna be playing some street fighter or Pokemon emerald on my phone! That habitRPG thing reminded me of Pokemon somehow lol, it's awesome though started using it a few days ago.
Dreadkicks1 awesome! Yeah, HabitRPG does have a couple pokemon elements, though I'd compare it more to a traditional, party-based RPG like Golden Sun or Dragon Warrior.
grinding on games is actually not a bad habit till u have a control and a time limit set for it.....but gaming can stop anytime and can start anytime in ur life but the schooling age is only one chance......so during ur school days be the best at school and later u have a whole lotta time to play games
Tipp: What helped me the most: Every monday morning i draw a chart at a whiteboard next to my my desk with three chart colums: "learn," "game," and "sport" where i mark all the time, that is spend there. By sunday evening the "game" part needs to be smaller then the "learn" and "sport." This also helps against playing boring farming games where you just waste your time grinding, because you realise how valuable your free gaming time is and you play fun games instead. :)
Pretend your life is a video game, by imagining you're a part of The Sims! 😜
Or Persona. Imagining my life as Persona games has actually been doing great on me. I feel super excited to meet friends and improving myself.
thank you so much! i need to focus for the AP exam .-.
Thanks Thomas ^^
Hey Thomas, something I would be really interested in, is how you come back to work when you got distracted at some point in time, for example with video games. I noticed, once distracted, it is like a waterfall that drags you down deeper and deeper and makes it really really hard to come back to work, and makes you think, e.g. 5 more minutes Minecraft won't hurt which then amounts to an hour. Do you have any strategies how to come back once distracted?
Hey Thomas Frank. Can you make a video about fitness?
You are awsome i've been ever seen thak you brother for sharing your experience
I started playing video games again recently after a few years of not playing that much... and it sucks... I always had an unhealthy relationship with gaming, I'd used to play so much and now I relapsing into that habit (one factor is the pandemic) and I became lazy. However, I set myself to only play after I did my university work... but then I really play for HOURS. After I wake up tomorrow I'll try to limit my access to just 1h per day. Thanks for suggesting apps like StayFocused, I'll try it out tomorrow!
How is it??
This channel is great.
I always study in my car whenever I can. As funny as it may sound it actually works.
nice vid and nice advices to take
How am I supposed to play my daily 5 hours a day if I'm failing my classes and I come home at 5 pm and have to study for 3 hours and wake up at 6:30 am?
I made a dedicated desk in my living room for gaming and entertainment, the one in my bedroom I use for everything that I consider productive, that made me have the most productive day of my life lol
I migrated to MOBA...its pretty time saving cause you basically don't want to play it too often because if you play it too often you might find yourself in a low rank and one match is pretty long gameplay and with just one match i found it very satisfying and after that i can get back to my homeworks
I usually have a zero tolerance policy towards video games because I get addicted, but this works really well.
NIC Advise man....Thanks ...
I really like games, it makes me feel good. But I can't find a balance of time: for example, sometimes I can work too hard almost without games, but then I feel that I am too much focused at "useful" things, and forget about useless but fun. Otherwise, sometimes I can play too much and do just a few work. So how correspond in your schedule useful things (work, useful hobbies) and useless but relaxing (chatting with a friends, games, etc.) Maybe you have an approximate percentage division?
That achievement notification at the end, wheeeeee!
Should try using HabitRPG.
I’m glad that you exist
Great video
I don't play games but I wanted to see it
it helps me for my addiction to UA-cam
Gaming Fri - Sunday only sometimes only Saturday thru Sunday cause of class & art
thank you for the video
i will come back in a month to see if this worked😀 ty!
How can I not listen to your advice after using a battlefront 2 clip? In all seriousness though, this is some good advice and seeing as I spent 12 hours gaming instead of studying for a test, (that I failed) I'll defiantly have to give these tips a try.
Connor Riley I do love me some BF2. Hopefully you'll be able to balance the studying and gaming better for the next test! :)
Great tips! I'm definitely gonna use some of these! Though I wonder if you can spell out what the app (that you mentioned before habitRPG) is called. I can't really hear what you say there... (I guess I'm not that good at english)
reklem2 Fitocracy! I used to use it all the time; it's awesome for gaining motivation to work out. Also, I try to link to all the resources I mention in each video's companion blog post - here's the one for this video: collegeinfogeek.com/balance-video-games-and-studying/
I'm a student studying electrical and electronic engineering. I've started my year recently and before that, i deleted all the games on my pc. Now if i have the urge to game (after i finish working), then i just play around with my arduino and make electronics projects
there is no video on HOW TO BALANCE UA-cam CHANNEL AND STUDY
Tip number one and I think this is probably the most important tip in the entire video
, which is why it's going first. It's to simply set up an environment for studying that is only for studying.
Tip number two is to increase the friction involved into getting into a video game.
Tip third is to simply game after you're done working for the day.
Tip number four is to play games that work well with your schedule.
Tip number five is his favorite tip because it's actually fun and it's to simply turn
your life into a game.
How about the opposite? I am so inclined towards work that I barely have any play. Besides, I even have a problem defining "play". Could studying drawing and/or music be considered play? During my free time I end up just studying more. Is that healthy?
Haha, I have the same issue you do! I never play games during the semester since I'm always doing work. I also tend to stop myself from playing them because I think I'll waste time. I could save gaming for when I take a break, but who can actually play just a half hour of Fallout? (Not me!)
...so I just end up watching Let's Plays.
Tori Sinanan that's pretty much me! Though I tend to watch review-style channels like Caddicarus, PBG, etc instead of Let's Plays. But lately I've been making an effort to actually play games, which is actually working pretty well! I just make plans to play them, which makes me work faster during the day.
But actually, playing games don't automatically make you like you're wasting time..video games aren't a waste of time at all, that's a common myth
Hey Thomas I am currently studying Plato, I am wondering, would you consider him to be the first philosopher? What are your thoughts on these old-school philosophers? My name is Andrea (dad's account), I am a Spanish 23 year old neuroscience graduate (uni of manchester, really great) currently studying a neuroscience masters in UMH in Spain while studying a humanities degree. Would love chatting with you you seem soo interesting, I have chatted with fellow students (physics to be precise) about you in our university dining room we love you! x
Thanks man
Thnx man!!!
Thanks, it kinda worked. Don't know why, but it did.
A new thing I do is reward myself for things I get done. for example, when I come home from work, I game for twenty minutes and then do school for hours. A good twenty minutes of witcher helps me get through four hours of studying.
is there a video or can you do a video for people on the same side of the scale as you? I study full time and work psrt time. plus have 2 kids. my "game" time I hope to actually give more time to family. but I find that im highly motivated to study and work extra at home that I end up having less than an hour daily for my own children. how do I balance it a bit better
Yea I am on your side too Thomas
Im just trying to know how to balance my soon to be gaming channel n school work this vid helped ig
Before going to college, I was playing video game but not daily. But since I began my studies at college I spent more time playing video game rather than studying or writing assignments. On top of that my mom pays the college fees. I have lost control over my life from being addicted to video games, even I uninstall the games, I cant even finish a week without re-installing them and download the new ones (games).
what worries me is that, this is my opportunity to make my life better but I keep ruining it due to my addiction in video games.
This issue makes me to hate my life and my existence in general. the worst part I'm on my third year in college, even though I do manage to pass my grades are always around 60%. since I become a college student, I cant even do good with my grades in every semester
at times when writing or studying for my upcoming tests/examination I sometimes thinking of ceasing myself from living. i have failed once when I was younger
focus on balancing both neither completely quitting gaming nor playing games all the time are going to help.
@@ayaskantbal6288 true true
My work is bleeding into the time for my gaming a lot but when I want to do nothing and relax my mind and I feel guilty that I’m not doing work
you have no idea how much you helped me c=
I share my room with my brother so there's no much space and I just can't study in another room because my parents are split in remaining rooms, so I can't stay focused if I am not in my room in which I do everything.
You saved my life Thomas Frank B-)
Really worth it
Specially the idea of "reward
Nice video!
imevano21 glad you enjoyed it!
Make my life a video game... sounds counterintuitive, yet genius. I'll give it a try lmao.
Can you make video on how to prepare for college. And how to get adjusted and get grants and applications filled out. I love your videos and thanks!
Jade Mitchell great ideas! Got them noted :)
THanks!
What about when what your studying can only be done at the college/university? for example manufacturing engineering most of the equipment used for assignments can only do at school...I went to college for manufacturing...so I got my work done at class. had tones of free time due to this...however counselors other students expected me to use that free time to do more studying...I felt I didn't need to as I was passing...so I gamed while at home...the school authorities figured I wasn't studying hard enough and created a problem so I would have to pull over nighters at the school. however overnighters in that coarse are a no go as we had to be supervised during lab time...Also in regards to the tests...I have never studied for a test in college and I usually ace them and am the first/one of the first to be done...they told me I had to study for the tests/exams more...I didn't as I felt confident in my abilities to pass the tests/exams...they then decided to hack my computer Id be doing the test on and glitch the program so features/tools of the program wouldn't work therefore making it seem like I am an idiot who needed to study more...I know it was a hacker problem because I have the sixth sense and my gut tells. me...oh I also tried multiple solutions to get the tests done but same thing happened so I quit. They also thought I should work whilst going to school however I stress and get fatigue easily so I figured focus on school...I've tried going to school whilst having a normal minimum wage job, while also getting contract/commision based work on the side I was still able to game...
I have now come to the realization that everything is pointless and a waste of time especially college and university...
Problem is i only love 120hour jrpgs, but my schedule is gonna be tight. 2 hrs in those games feel like nothing most of the time. Talking bout you, zelda botw!
I really like the “gaming as reward” tip
I use to play games always after doing my work, now when I play games after working my parents say: “HEY, YOURE GONNA FORGET WHAT YOU JUST LEARNED IF YOU PLAY VIDEO GAMES AFTER” and then I can’t play video games from Monday-Saturday ;~; unless it’s summer holidays but I have 5 minutes everyday
thx that helped
Allocates 5 hours of college day to studying for the final
*Spends it all on UA-cam and video games*
That's me😬
I want you to save me from watching UA-cam videos from dawn to dusk .. The fact is that I can't even play games or either study as well ..
Finally i found worthy comment thanks i also suffer from this
You're amazing man.
I'm in grade 8, and I'm learning a lot from your videos. If you have the time, can you give us students in middle school or high school advice on how to be prepared for high school or college. Making a video would be great, thanks man!
Check out this series we did - especially the 3rd episode :) collegeinfogeek.com/path-to-college-getting-in/
when ur an honor student but also love gaming... it’s crazy
Hey any tips on controlling mobile gaming. I’ve kinda have indulged in hardcore gaming on my iPad. For example Shadowverse, Granblue Fantasy, Fate Grand Order, and more. PLEASE HELP ME. They seem to interfere with college.
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I find Switching accounts too easy...
so i Install Linux in dual boot and try to do study related stuff in that..
I used to be on the video game side but not anymore because I want to study finsh my whole homework and now I am on the study side I don’t play video games a lot now I only play ever day for 30 minutes and I watch tv for 2 and a half hours and I study more and do my homework more then playing video games
Tip: Secure each room for a specific activity.
e.g: Bedroom for studying;
Living Room for Gaming....etc......
unfortunatwly, i cant do it
It is very hard to apply the first tip because I only have one room.
I am now leaving all gaming. It wasn't something I did before, and I recently started playing them when I built my PC in March 2017. Rainbow six and Battlefield 1 took most of my time i.e 970 hours on r6 and about 307 hours on battlefield 1. My friends keep suggesting games to me, however, every game I play is very boring to me. Now the games that I do play have gotten boring and every time I play them I feel like a shit person for not being productive. So as of tonight before Fall semester starts on the 20th I shall not be playing games. Unfortunately, in CS and my program I.T. pretty much everyone plays games. So I will have to find another topic to relate to people on. Besides common field of study that is.
This is about balancing both, not leaving.
Well, that's your problem if the games you play are boring, not the games themselves..literally, games are meant to be fun. Also, no, playing games don't automatically make you unproductive person, idk why do you think they aren't productive when that's not true, actually, if you keep things balanced, games can give you numerous positive benefits.
Wdym unfortunately in CS and I.T. everyone plays games? That's not a problem, it's their ways to have fun & relax time
I feel like league is the hardest to pratice quiting or trying balance out becuase its so time consuming I think its good to play like 2 games and quit and then study but you really to try and that
Campbell Haynes fuck league and mobas
It's hard man, I tried doing all my assignments the whole day and playing games the next day. I got stressed. I ended up finoshing hardly one assignment. Heck I just can't have a complete day without playing at least one dam game.😭
1.Environment
2.friction
3 .Play after work
4.Play the right game
5.Turn your life to game
what if your parents don't allow you to play at all during the week?
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One weird thing about gaming is that once I graduated high school there impact on me went down. I still love video games though. But high school is so strict about time constraints that playing an hour or so of video games every day or so was the only cool shit I had time for/access too. In college there is more time and more resources for me to do cool shit.
urmanascrewed true
what are your favourite games and what is your current (favourite) game?