I pretend to be named Ilzolende, and I’m 16, which puts me closer to you in age than the majority of commenters here. I’d suggest learning about common cognitive biases for general self-improvement. In terms of academic boredom, it may help to find a secondary activity that you can perform that does not interfere with your ability to absorb spoken information. Small, quiet things for you to play with in your hands without looking, like Silly Putty, are useful options.
This doesn’t always help, but trying to figure out why you feel a certain way can dampen some emotions. When I’m really angry at someone, but I don’t want to be, sometimes telling myself “my body is having an anger reaction, but that doesn’t mean I have to be upset at that person” is useful, as is directing feelings of aggression to an inanimate object. (Don’t actually attack the object, just replace any images you have of you hurting someone with you hitting (for example) a drum set.)
If you realize that you have no good reason you can think of for having an emotion, you may want to treat it as a physical problem. If I’m sad, but not due to actual external phenomena, then sometimes just reading something nice for half an hour works.
I don’t know how well this generalizes, and there may be some negative costs to playing with Silly Putty in class, so take this with a grain of salt.
Hi, Alex!
I pretend to be named Ilzolende, and I’m 16, which puts me closer to you in age than the majority of commenters here. I’d suggest learning about common cognitive biases for general self-improvement. In terms of academic boredom, it may help to find a secondary activity that you can perform that does not interfere with your ability to absorb spoken information. Small, quiet things for you to play with in your hands without looking, like Silly Putty, are useful options.
This doesn’t always help, but trying to figure out why you feel a certain way can dampen some emotions. When I’m really angry at someone, but I don’t want to be, sometimes telling myself “my body is having an anger reaction, but that doesn’t mean I have to be upset at that person” is useful, as is directing feelings of aggression to an inanimate object. (Don’t actually attack the object, just replace any images you have of you hurting someone with you hitting (for example) a drum set.)
If you realize that you have no good reason you can think of for having an emotion, you may want to treat it as a physical problem. If I’m sad, but not due to actual external phenomena, then sometimes just reading something nice for half an hour works.
I don’t know how well this generalizes, and there may be some negative costs to playing with Silly Putty in class, so take this with a grain of salt.