On Power and Finals: Email to Penn Kempo

I just sent an email response to my old kempo / stickfighting club at Penn.  Worth sharing:

You may think that you don't have time to come to class during finals week, but in reality, even were it possible to study 24x7, it would neither be healthy nor produce better results than a different study schedul In my experience, going to Kempo during finals week was always a great break from studying, a chance to get some much needed exercise, and a place to relax my mind.  Giving your brain a break from studying will benefit you in two ways. First, you'll be more focused when you come back to your books and better able to concentrate.  Second, you'll be constraining your time and limiting your study hours, so your productivity will increase.  I would be willing to bet that you'll accomplish the same amount of work in less time if you block out time where you prevent yourself from studying.  Work tends to expand to fill the amount of time you're given to do it: decrease the amount of time you have to do your work, and you'll do it faster and more efficiently. Bottom line, go to class!  You'll increase your study power: W / t = P (NB: much of this speech is ripped off from Dave and J, so if you've heard it already in class, sorry.  If you weren't in class, though, now you've heard it.)