This is an All Ears English podcast, episode three.
When should you study English?
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Should you study English in the morning, the afternoon or the evening?
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How's it going today, Michelle?
How are you?
Hey, Lindsay.
I'm good.
I'm good.
How are you?
Awesome.
I want to start off with an interesting question for today's episode, and that is when do you think our listeners should study English?
Should they study in the morning, the afternoon, or the evening?
What do you think?
That's a great question.
And I think it's a very personal question, to be honest.
I don't know what there's one answer for everybody.
I think you have to know yourself.
So for me, like, you know me.
I'm more of like an evening person.
But the problem for evening people is you don't always wanna study in the evening, because that's the evening.
So like, it's kind of tricky, but you have to kind of know where your strengths lie, right?
So how do you work around that?
Because I know, Michelle, we have recorded this podcast at all different times.
Sometimes we record in the morning.
We've done a few episodes here.
We record in the morning.
We record in the evening.
I know you're usually more on in the evening, like you said, more energy.
But sometimes you have to work in the morning.
How do you deal with that?
How do you wake yourself up?
Oh, coffee, man.
That's all.
I can't.
Like there's not, you know, the evening people we have to kind of like work around the rest of society because it is such a like a morning culture.
Yes.
So there's really nothing.
Unfortunately, sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't.
But like as far as our listeners, I just think it's you have to know yourself.
You have to know your schedule.
I don't think that there's like one best time.
What do you think, Lindsay?
Yeah, I agree.
I mean, I was just gonna ask you real quick.
Were you that way in college too?
Were you that that kid that was up late studying at 2am when you were in college?
I'm curious.
You know what I don't remember?
You don't remember.
I do remember once staying up very, very late.
But the thing I could never do was pull like I only did one all nighter.
And like as much as I can stay up late, I cannot just like then stay up all night and then go directly into a test like that.
I couldn't do that.
Yeah.
So that's a great phrase for our listeners.
A bonus phrase for today, guys, to pull an all-nighter.
I think we've talked about this before, but what does that mean, Michelle?
To stay up all night and not go to sleep, usually before some sort of test or something.
Oh, I feel awful when I do that.
I've never done that either, Michelle.
But yeah.
So I just wondered if your habits have changed as an adult or whether you were the same way.
Is this true our whole lives?
But in terms of my answer, my opinion on this, I think it's very personal too.
For me, I'm the opposite of you.
I'm a morning person.
And for me, it comes down to willpower.
I found this great quote on mediumcom, which says that willpower is the ability to resist short-term temptations in order to meet long-term goals.
So what that means for me is that willpower is a muscle.
It runs out.
So I start the morning so strong, feeling so good, so clear, so much energy and mind, power and willpower.
But by three or four, I'm checking my email, I'm checking Facebook, I'm just, I'm losing it.
So for me, if I were trying to study English like our listeners, I would definitely get to it right away in the morning.
It would be the first thing I would do in the morning.
What do you think about that, Michelle?
Yeah.
I mean, I think that that's good.
I think you know yourself, you know and I think yeah, when you are going to have that burst of willpower, that's when you're going to be the most productive, right.
Now, sometimes it doesn't work out for our lives, right?
Like you can't like yeah, like I can't just like work every night at like 11 pm, you know when I might have the most willpower then, because I'm the type of person like
Just yesterday, I was like, I was exhausted all day, exhausted.
And it's finally time to get into bed.
And I'm like, you know what?
I feel better.
That's so crazy.
That's so crazy that you get that burst of energy at 11 p.m.
I do.
So like I always have to scrunch myself into, you know, a real life schedule.
So, you know, sometimes that willpower doesn't always coincide with like real life.
So you kind of have to find that mix between like, when is like the best time for you and when can you be most realistic?
And, you know, only you can answer that for yourself.
Yeah, I think that's so true.
Michelle, I've heard in the past that a lot of creative types, you're a creative type for sure.
You do music, you do acting, and a lot of them do come alive at night.
I've heard that in different places. for sure.
So that makes total sense for you.
But yeah, the world is kind of a little bit against you a little bit in this way, right?
We show up at work early in the morning.
We're expected to be on at 9am.
So who knows?
Maybe things will change in the future.
But guys, the point is, I mean, what is the takeaway, Michelle, here when it comes to study English?
When should they study?
When should our listeners study English?
What's the takeaway?
I think the takeaway is know yourself um yes, and really like don't try and fit yourself into unless you know schedules.
You have to, but like really try your best to like study, even if it's not like strict studying at a Maybe okay for me, like if I were studying a language and it's like 11 pm and I finally feel alive and like I'm like ready to go, but it's time to go to sleep, you know, maybe okay, fine.
Maybe like I wind down with like, you know, five new words and I just like…
You know, it's kind of something that I can look forward to, like when I'm relaxing, or something like that.
So make it fun, you know, know when you are going to have that burst of willpower.
And even if it's not like the time of day that goes along with the rest of the world, like you can still do something like still like kind of try and soak up that you know energy that you have and use it in some way, even if it's just a little bit, because that even a little bit helps.
I love that.
So good.
I love it.
Know yourself.
That is the key right there, Michelle.
All right.
Well, that's it for today.
Thanks for hanging out.
It's been an interesting topic for sure.
Definitely love it.
Have a good one, Lindsay.
Talk to you soon.
Bye.
Bye.
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