2 February 2026 · Park Minjae
The markets a study plan leaves off
A plan that cannot say no will be rewritten every time a cousin sends a chart.
When a student arrives with eight markets, the first hour is not about which pattern they like. It is about which six will sit outside the plan for a month. The written plan has a small heading for them: left off until the review date.
This is not a judgment that those markets are dull. It is a seat count. Two markets, marked the same way each week, produce pages you can compare. Eight markets produce a stack you will not reread on the train back from Chuncheon.
The left-off list is allowed to tempt you. Write the names. When a bar looks dramatic on a Wednesday, the list is the thing you read before you open a fresh page. If the name is on it, the mark waits.
At the six-week review we look at the list again. One name may come in. One of the original two may go out. The plan stays the same size. Students who skip this page tell me later that the week “got busy.” The week got busy because the plan never said what busy was forbidden to include.