A psychological management project for students who want to enjoy studying!
A warm psychological story that gives you the confidence to study with excitement.

The author, a psychology instructor at Megastudy, suggests 'positivity' and 'joy' as the most important psychological keywords for the second semester.
All high school students preparing for the college entrance exam, repeaters, and soon-to-be high school sophomores and freshmen are anxious about the future.
However, the author says that we must maintain focus in the present moment.
Additionally, he advises students to accept anxiety as a friend they must go through together.
The author warns that the more you deny and exclude anxiety, the more intense the anxiety will become, and eventually, you will become psychologically helpless. This is why the keywords to overcome this process are 'positivity' and 'joy.'
The second semester is a time when students should enjoy studying.
Therefore, consistent psychological management is essential to plan psychological strategies in detail by hour and to continuously implement them.
The author provides an answer to this question in the form of a psychology class for students who want to enjoy studying.

Don't try the impossible task of finding the formless mind called beginner's mind. Rather than the difficult task of completely changing the environment, which is possible, it is better to maintain the routine of studying that you have been doing so far, such as finding a study method that is easy for you and taking comfortable walks, exercising, meditating, etc.
--- p.38

Anyone who has ever gone through the process of taking an exam can relate to this.
"If you feel good on test day, your grades will be good." The thing that students worry about most before the big exam, the CSAT, is their physical condition.
If you are in good condition, you can expect good results on the test, but if you are in bad condition, it predicts negative results for your performance.
--- p.49

If you have an exam coming up, it's perfectly natural to feel anxious.
If students accept their anxiety as normal, it will naturally subside. However, if they treat the anxiety as a problem, the symptoms will deepen and the anxious feelings will often lead to unwanted situations.
So I tell people not to resist their emotions.
Sometimes acceptance is the easiest and fastest way.
--- p.59

Are you guys in a slump right now? If you're in a slump right now, it means you've been studying really hard.
When I hit a slump after working hard, I accept it with gratitude, thinking, "I've been studying so hard up until now!"
If you're grateful, you can take a break.
But if you keep criticizing and blaming others, you will lose more and more confidence.
Take a break! Admit it, "It's time for me to take a break."
--- p.74

Smile a lot! Laughing only when circumstances make you happy is a sign of your intention to live in accordance with the circumstances.
I want to emphasize to you all to smile hard with the intention of living the way you want to live.
--- p.80

He said that the signal of anxiety is not a signal that makes me suffer, but an early warning signal that protects me.
For example, if an early warning signal comes that a tsunami is coming, we must run quickly.
Instead of sitting still and thinking, 'What should I do?', just run.
Now is not the time to worry about your timing.
You need to break free from the wrong stereotypes that society has ingrained in you, like, "At my age?"
--- p.98

'I am not a special person.
'I am a person who wants to be special.' This is the slogan I shout out to my students during offline lectures.
Most of our students who are reading this article now have lived their lives thinking that they are special people, but when they look at themselves now, I think they have a characteristic that does not show anything special about themselves.
I regretfully turn my back on the idea that I am special.
'He is a person who wants to become special.'
--- p.118

If you need to focus now and can't focus, you usually blame yourself, and then, in the next step, you end up predicting a bad future for yourself based on those feelings of self-blame.
Rather than making that choice, try writing down what you learned yesterday and summarizing it, or move on to a subject you can do confidently to relieve your stress and then do the subject you have to do again.
--- p.130

When you sit down to study and express your admiration with good feelings, studying helps you put into practice actions with good feelings for yourself.
Even though you study for yourself, if you interpret it as a negative feeling rather than a positive one, you will increasingly want to escape from the study environment and will not be able to think about staying there.
How about incorporating positive emotions into the daily memories of students in their study and exam environments?
--- p.161

Studying that doesn't make me happy isn't studying properly.
I hope you realize that studying happily means studying with a sense of happiness and that you can achieve the grades you want.
--- p.172

You are about to take the college entrance exam.
How long are you going to continue to self-reflect? This isn't the time for mere reflection! Try to somehow bring out the positive in yourself.
Remember how hard I worked in the past? I especially emphasized that point to repeat students at offline academies.
“You guys are really amazing.
Have you ever thought about how many times you've given up and wanted to quit over the past year studying for the CSAT? And yet you persevered! Do you think you would have persevered if you were still in school?" I instill pride in repeat test takers, telling them they've accomplished something incredible and deserve recognition.

--- p.178

True pride is when you have a goal you want to achieve and you stick to that resolution.
Even if your friend next to you says, "Hey! How dare you go to Seoul National University? Shut up!" Say, "Yes, you're right! I admit it!" and study hard with the determination to achieve it within a year. That will become your true self-esteem, brightening your future.
Love and cherish each day with true pride and self-respect.

--- p.197