how do we get more done with the little time that we have? how do we become more motivated to do
more work? here's the truth about productivity summed up in a simple little formula "P equals
E divided by S" your productivity is equal to your energy levels divided by how efficient your
system is we'll rate energy on a scale of one to ten ten being the most and one being the least
energy dictates how motivated you feel and also how long you can work every day before feeling
burnt out without it you'll have an extremely hard time getting out of bed let alone study or work on
a project for the many hours that you want now there are two things that you need to make sure
you are doing in order to maximize your energy the first comes from optimizing your biology
basically if you have a bad diet bad sleep and no exercise a hormonal imbalance lack of sunlight at
the right times if you breathe through your mouth instead of your nose or if you have any other bad
habits or addictions chances are the Baseline amount of energy you have throughout the day
is much lower than it should be now we're not going to dive into each of these things
as there is a lot of information online covering each in more detail what you should do is you
should take note on which of these stand out which of these areas you could work on and
then figure out how to fix these individual areas after finishing this video but I will
leave you with one tip that's really helped me out personally I like to work in a fasted State
when I wake up and this is because fasting has been shown to release adrenaline which is one of
the most energizing hormones out there so what I do is Skip breakfast and I don't eat lunch
until after I complete my work for the day this is something that works for some people but not
for others so keep that in mind now the second thing you need in order to maximize your energy
is Passion you see when you enjoy doing something energy gets generated during the act of doing this
happens because neurotransmitters like dopamine are released while you are studying a subject
that you enjoy or working on a project that you're obsessed about every little Milestone you reach or
new piece of information you come across releases more dopamine and this dopamine ends up motivating
you to work even more it literally gives you more energy that's why so many of us are able to play
video games for eight hours straight but can't seem to study for just an hour playing video
games is an enjoyable task that releases dopamine every few minutes which energizes US and keeps us
playing now I know some of you might be thinking well what if I'm not passionate about the thing I
have to work on well there are some ways you can trick yourself to enjoy the process more such as
Temptation bundling which is when you do something enjoyable while doing something less enjoyable for
example eating food while studying a boring subject you could also give yourself rewards
More Often by doing something like the Pomodoro Technique where you work for 25 minutes and then
take a five minute break and reward yourself during those five minutes and finally you could
reframe your work as something that has a higher purpose something that is extremely meaningful
such as convincing yourself that studying to become a doctor will bring your family above
the poverty line if techniques like this do not work then you must face a harsh reality if
you genuinely do not enjoy something it is almost always going to be much harder for you to generate
more energy especially over long periods of time if you are genuinely not interested in becoming an
engineer or a doctor like your parents want you to then I honestly believe you should switch to
something else that you do enjoy because when you work on a passion you will be able to tap
into a much larger pool of energy which in turn increases your chances of success you will go
out of your way to research a subject that you are interested in you will spend hours working
on something without anyone having to force you to do it your productivity levels will be much higher
because your e in the formula will be much higher the second part of the formula is s the efficiency
of your system which is also rated on a scale of one to ten but in this case the more efficient
your system is the lower the number should be so someone without any system whatsoever someone who
just tries to do the work that they remember in their head has a 10 for efficiency they are not
efficient at all on the other hand someone with an overly complicated bullet journal with 20
different things that they try to fill out every day half of which they forget to do that's like a
six it's better than nothing but it's definitely not the most efficient system out there the most
efficient systems are systems that primarily focus on the most important tasks that you
need to do I'm sure many of you have heard of the 80 20 rule eighty percent of all progress boils
down to just 20 of the work if you can identify the most important work of the day and get that
done every day it's no question that you'll be more productive now as some of you know for the
past couple of years I've used bullet journals to organize my life but this year I've been trying to
cut down on the number of things I bring with me when I travel so I've decided to try out notion
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my video pipeline that I'm using to track all of the video projects that I have going on and
where I'm currently at in the timeline for each of them here is my research page where it take
notes on all the topics I'm currently researching and thinking about which I eventually might use to
create the scripts for future videos here are my daily to-do's this used to take up the majority of
space in my old bullet Journal it covers all of the tasks I need to do every day it helps
me remember to send emails and do other smaller tasks which I would definitely forget if I didn't
add them I also use this section like a calendar which gives me a bigger picture of what's coming
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I mentioned before it doesn't really matter what type of system you have you could have a physical
one in the form of a bullet journal or a digital one like notion as long as it is efficient which
means that you're not trying to do 20 things every day and you instead focus on the 20 of things that
you need to do in order to get 80 of the results that you want in life to sum things up if you
truly want to become more productive you must make sure that you have as much energy as possible and
then make sure that you funnel this energy into the most efficient system as possible this is
essentially the secret to productivity I hope this video was helpful besides that guys stay tuned