You have to schedule your time. Don't
just stuff studying in to cracks in your
schedule. Your schedule should be built
around studying. What does this mean? This
means have an exact set time during the
day when you start to study. For me, I
remember it was about 6:00 p.m. I would
always say to myself, okay 6:00 p.m. I
get back from school, I rest a little bit and then
at 6:00 p.m. that's my study time. It
starts. How long does it go? Well, that
depends on how much assignments and
homework I have but it would go for at
least an hour or two and sometimes would
go for four or five or six hours and it
would start at 6:00 and it would
usually end like around 9:00 or 10:00 or
or after that and it would vary but I
think what's really important to have
that starting time 6:00 no matter what
6:00.
Sit down and study. Open the books, sit
down
study. It doesn't have to be 6:00 for you
just come up with your own time and
you're doing this every single day.
What's important about this is that it
leads us to the next point which is you
have to get comfortable and you have to
slow yourself down in order to study
effectively. You can't rush the studying
process and one of the secrets that I
use is simply brute force. Right? A lot of
the issues as a student that I dealt
with, the things that I couldn't
understand I just brute forced them through
repetition and this repetition can take
time. Also, you know, you have to be
patient with yourself. Sometimes you're
not going to understand the problem
right off the bat so you just kind of
repeat it, repeat it, mull it over,
mull it over and that means sometimes
you, it takes you longer so instead of
finishing a quick little math assignment
in an hour, it might take you three hours
but that's worth it if you calm yourself
down. Get comfortable, slow yourself down
kind of open yourself to absorbing this
information, alright. This is where the
love it comes in. If you don't love it
and what you're doing is you're just
kind of rush studying through stuff just
to learn it, like cramming for an exam
that's just horrible. That's horrible
because all you're trying to do is
you're jumping, you're like a dog jumping
through hoops. That's basically what you
are when you're doing that because
you're saying yourself well I gotta pass
this exam in order to get into college, to
get grades, so my parents like me.
That's just hoops like a dog you're
jumping through. Don't do that. Instead
what you think about is like this. Okay this
subject matter is really fascinating. Let
me study more. Let me learn more. I want
to know how math interconnects with, with
history and I want to know how history
connects with science and I want to
know how this and this connect and I
want to know more depth about this thing
here. That's how you got to think. I don't
think there's any magic in being
successful and I'm not talking about
making a million dollars or a billion
dollars. I'm just talking about being
successful. I'm talking about being
successful in what you guys do at work. I
don't think there's any magic. You got to
work hard
you gotta respect the people around you
and you just gotta go. I've never met a
successful person that doesn't work hard.
There are two rules that I always adhere
to and that is to work hard and be brave
and I think the essence of hard work is
one that's pretty straightforward. It's
that you'll never be the best-looking
you'll never be the tallest, most
talented, most capable, you'll never have
the most money, there will always be
someone who's better at whatever you're
doing then what, than you are but you can
always be the hardest-working person in
the room and I think the hardest-working
person will always win.
Who must you become in order to create
what you want? What has to change about
you?
What is it that you're doing right now that
would be a liability for you? As you
begin to look toward the future and take
inventory of yourself, what is it about
you right now
that you've got to leave this behind
because this no longer fits. Looking at
where you want to go and the kind of
person that you must become, the kind of
standards that you have for you, what is
it that you must do differently? Clear your
mind of all distractions. I used to hold
the record for the fastest to memorize a
deck of cards in the United States and some
times before I would memorize a deck
of cards my brain would be worried about
things in my life or things that were
going on so what I would do to clear my
mind of all distractions is I would
close my eyes and I would visualize
those scenarios the way that I wish they
were or the way that I hope they would
be one day and then I would open my eyes, I
would be relieved of that stress and
then I would memorize a deck of cards.
Clear your mind of all distractions
maybe close your eyes and visualize the
things the way you wish they could be
and then focus on your studying. Depending
on how well you want to do, particularly if you're
starting a company you need to work
super hard. So, what does super hard mean? Well,
when my brother and I were starting our
first company instead of getting an
apartment we just rented a small office
and we slept on the couch and we showered
at the YMCA and we were so hard up we had
just one computer so the website was up
during the day and I was coding at night.
For seven days a week, all the time and I so
briefly had a girlfriend in that period and
in order to be with me she had to sleep in
the office. So, work hard like
it, I mean, every waking hour. That's, that's
the thing I would, I would say if you
particularly if you're starting a company
and I mean if you do simple math, you say
like okay if somebody else is working 50
hours and you're working a hundred
you'll get twice as done, as much done in
the course of a year as the other
company. If you want to learn something
faster you must first and foremost know
the connection between what you want to
learn and your dream life. Your real life
style that you want to have. I tell people
all the time like don't just come up
with things you want to learn because
guess what, we want to learn everything.
By human build, we are curious animals.
We're deathly curious. I mean we are
literally the curiosity killed the cat
sort of society right now. Everyone wants
to learn 50 new things immediately but
no one ever learns anything. Why? Because
it's not real for them it's a transient
desire. If you want to become a great
learner it has to be attached to a dream
life of yours. A true, a true lifestyle that you
see for yourself.