INPUT ARTICLE: Article: Studying with friends can make study time more fun and engaging, as long as you stay mostly on topic. Have your friends quiz you by asking you what world capital belongs with what country. Keep your group small. Too many people can be distracting. Don't have more than 4 or 5 people in your study group. Don't forget to return the favor and quiz your friends, too. It will also help reinforce the information for you, too, as you're still going over the material. Put the capital on one side and the country on the other side. Go through the stack, trying to remember the other side without looking. Try to come up with the answer before you peek. Write the name of a capital on one card and the name of the country on another. Repeat until you have all the capitals and countries on individual cards. Lay them face down on a table. Turn one over, and turn another one over. Only keep the set if the country and capital match up. You can play by yourself or against another person. World news often talks about the capitals of other countries. You'll be more informed overall, but you'll also start picking up on facts about the capitals. You'll associate the capitals with real people and real events, which will help you remember them. However, if you're under 18, make sure to ask your parents if it's okay for you to watch, as news channels can be graphic. Geography board games or online games can reinforce what you've learned. In addition, they make learning more fun, so you won't get as bored as easily. One place to quiz yourself on geography is Free Rice. Just be sure to select "World Capitals," which you'll find under "Geography" on the "Subjects" page. In addition to helping you learn the game, Free Rice also donates rice to people who are hungry. If you don't review what you've learned, you'll gradually lose it. If you don't want to forget your world capitals, continue to go over the material so it sticks with you.

SUMMARY: Have your friends quiz you. Try making flashcards. Make a match-up game. Watch world news. Play geography games. Keep reviewing.

INPUT ARTICLE: Article: The most interesting people tend to be those who have opted to specialize themselves in hobbies and interests the most passionately. No matter how geeky or unfashionable your current interests may be, it is considered attractive for a man to own up to what he's interested in, and own confidence enough to show them off with pride. When you're meeting a woman for the first time, this will also give you plenty of possible material to converse with. Maintaining an active and healthy social life is an important part of feeling confidence. Anyone is bound to feel down on themselves if they feel isolated from the rest of society. If you're feeling in need of cheering up, spending time with your existing circle of friends can give you the morale you need to broaden your horizons. Not to mention-- the most common way of meeting new people is through the people you already know. If you're looking to meet a woman, you can't go wrong with going out with the friends you already have. Personality, charm and confidence are far and beyond the most important factors in getting a woman's attention, but it doesn't hurt to be in relatively good shape. Taking care of your health shows to a woman that you have self-respect and discipline. This will make her that much more likely to take you seriously as a possible partner. Take a look at your own body and try to access the things you'd like to see improved. If you're overweight, going for a run or using an elliptical machine can help shed pounds, so long as it's done in tandem with a whole foods-based diet. If you lack sufficient muscle definition, you should determine which muscles you would like to see improve the most and focus on them. Keep in mind, however, that good health comes from valuing every part of your body. A well-balanced workout will always have better results than simply training up your biceps. Get at least six hours of sleep every night, and try to get to sleep around the same time every evening. Watching what you eat will have a big effect on the way you feel. Steering clear of fat and sugar-heavy processed foods should see a significant change in your mood within a couple of weeks. If a woman is going to step outside her comfort zone and show open interest towards you, you had better make sire you are a catch worth pursuing. A big part of that means presenting your body in a fashionable, attractive and sophisticated manner. Purchase a current men's fashion magazine for insights into what to wear and how to wear it. It's also important to be dressing as appropriately suits the place you'll be meeting at. As much as a three-piece suit looks great on just about any guy, you might seem silly if you're approaching a woman at a hardcore punk show dressed like that. Fashion is important, but personality and comfort are arguably even more crucial to your attractiveness. You won't be feeling quite like yourself if you're wearing something that doesn't suit your personal style. Worse still, dressing as someone you're not may attract the wrong sort of women to you. Posture, eye contact, and proper force of step are all non-verbal ways of letting the world know you are confident in your abilities as a man. If you aren't already exhibiting these traits, it's a good idea to train yourself to do them in the mirror. Looking at yourself with give you a basic idea of the way other people are going to be perceiving you when you're stressing these physical indicators. Ideally, you will be ultimately demonstrating these on a constant basis without having to think about it. At first, you'll need to keep them in mind frequently. Give it enough time, and you'll start showing these signs by default. As an added bonus, expressing confidence physically will make you feel more confident on the inside as well. Keep running with it until it starts to come naturally, and you should feel the morale booster set in shortly thereafter. If you're having a hard time developing a dash of confidence in yourself toward women, try writing down a list of things you think women might potentially find attractive in you. No matter how down yourself you might be, there are things about you a woman would die for.

SUMMARY: Develop specialized interests. Spend time with friends. Exercise regularly. Dress the part of a gentleman. Demonstrate the physical indicators of confidence.

INPUT ARTICLE: Article: The sound hole should be facing upward. Ensure that the floor around you is free of grates, nooks, or other spots in which your pick could get lost. Also be sure that you've got clearance to move your instrument around without knocking over a nearby object.

SUMMARY:
Hold the guitar flat on your lap.