you should not be studying 12 hours a day every day in the long term it's not an effective
long-term strategy and it's just not healthy on this channel i really try to get across the
message that you don't need to be studying crazy hours every day you just need to focus on studying
efficiently on studying smart saying that though if you are occasionally going to be studying the
entire day or even study sessions that are five or six hours long then you need to keep your
health in check so it becomes a sustainable study strategy the last thing i want is you
burning out putting on weight suffering from mood disorders etc because you're studying so much
so in this video i'm gonna go through nine ways that you can study long hours but in a healthy and
sustainable way and these methods will help keep you focused as well so you're actually able to
study efficiently for the entire 10 11 12 hours or however long you're studying for socialize
so this might seem counterintuitive right i'm encouraging you to kick back socialize hang out
with friends because it really is important i'm coaching a few dozen students one-on-one in the
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and more of my students when they first come to me they're kind of isolating themselves from everyone
else around them they're studying so hard which is great but they're neglecting their social life and
doing that long term that's dangerous territory socializing at least once a week is essential for
so many things it helps you develop social skills that you're just not taught in formal education
and it's a great way of boosting morale as well and for me at least if i'm stressed or if i've
had a long day at work there's nothing better than just to chill out with friends for a few
hours to unwind and also networking it was only until after i graduated from university that i
realized how important networking actually is it's good to know people and the more people you know
the more opportunities present themselves the more doors open and socializing massively helps
with that social learning instead of just studying for 12 hours a day sitting by yourself in front
of your laptop social learning is a great way to mix things up so social learning is basically just
studying with a friend or small group of friends it can be a really helpful and effective way of
learning for two reasons firstly you might be helping out your friends and explaining to them
certain concepts that they don't understand which strengthens your neural pathways so you're
actually learning the material better yourself and secondly they can help you so you can help them
and they can help you so if there's something you don't understand then they can teach you and again
it gets you out of this situation where you're isolating yourself from the people around you
by studying in a group you're socializing you're learning and it's generally more engaging than
studying by yourself right i used to study a lot at the library i'd probably do 80 of my studying
in the library but sometimes i would study with my friends for an hour or two in between lectures and
it was just i don't know it was a nice break it just mixes things up rather than studying alone
all the time just do make sure that you stay on the topic of studying and don't start getting
distracted with things like plans for the weekend sleep so out of high school i always used to be
tired especially in the middle of the day after lunchtime and it's funny because i was always
tired but i never thought to look at my sleeping schedule and see if there was a problem because i
was only sleeping for five or six hours a night which isn't too bad but it's certainly not good
either and at university i made sure i got at least seven hours of sleep a night i probably
averaged about 7.5 hours it's only a couple of hours more than i was getting before but it made
a huge difference to how i felt during the day and it made a massive difference to my productivity as
well i mean this is pretty fundamental you need to get enough sleep if you really want to be firing
on all cylinders throughout the day and study hard and achieve the best grades that you can then you
need to build a strong foundation first and for me the single most important thing that i need to do
regarding sleep is wake up at the same time every single morning and go to bed at the same time
every single night with no exceptions it makes a massive difference in terms of your quality of
sleep so seven or so years ago i used to work night shifts at a supermarket and some days
i worked day shifts and some days i'd work night shifts and my sleeping pattern was so messed up
because sometimes i'd be working in the day and sometimes i'd be working until six in the morning
and honestly it was absolutely exhausting you couldn't pay me enough money to go back to living
that life because getting enough sleep plays a big part in building that strong foundation i mean it
goes without saying but if you're not getting enough sleep in the long term you're at a far
higher chance of suffering from obesity type 2 diabetes cancer depression and there's so many
other conditions related to that so yeah this is important get enough sleep the pomodoro technique
the pomodoro technique is where you set a timer usually about 25 minutes you study intensively for
that 25 minutes then you take a five minute break and i talk about this method in more detail in
another video i made study methods what works and what doesn't where i basically rank all the study
methods in terms of what is effective and works and what isn't effective and what doesn't work you
can click on the pop-up banner to watch that but i rang the pomodoro technique really highly because
it's great for two reasons firstly it kind of forces you to take breaks and this is important
because well good luck studying for 12 hours straight without any breaks right but by taking
regular breaks it gives your brain a rest and you can recharge and study for longer as a result
secondly every break you should be getting up and moving around so sitting at a desk for hours every
day and not moving is incredibly unhealthy so the pomodoro method helps to remind you that you need
to keep moving to keep your blood circulating exercise this is something else that i never
used to do at high school but i started doing at university and had such a massive positive impact
on my life and i really kind of want to share my story here on my channel because i do want to
inspire as many people as i can to start regularly exercising because there are just so many benefits
so when i was at high school i was super super super skinny i didn't do any sports and honestly i
used to hate exercise but now i can i really can't imagine my life without it what i didn't realize a
few years ago is that exercising it doesn't have to be boring there are so many different ways to
move to work out to burn calories and when i was younger i wish i knew that if i chose a sport that
i enjoyed then it wouldn't feel like exercise so pick something do it regularly become good at it
and it'll change your life trust me because there are so many studies that back this up as well not
just from my experience for example dr john ratey professor at harvard medical school says
that exercise improves learning on three levels firstly it optimizes your mindset to improve
alertness attention and motivation secondly it prepares and encourages nerve cells to bind
to one another which is the cellular basis for logging in new information and thirdly
it spurs the development of new nerve cells from the stem cells in the hippocampus in short not
only does exercise help you actually sit down and study in the first place but when you are studying
it actually makes retaining information a whole lot easier hydration this is something that is
often overlooked by students if you're regularly feeling tired and lethargic during the day it
could just be that you're dehydrated so a study in 2019 at northwestern university and the university
of illinois found that just making a conscious effort of drinking a couple of glasses of water
more than you normally would each day can keep you hydrated and increase your ability to multitask
as well as improve your memory the results of the study showed a clear correlation between how much
water a participant drunk and how long they were able to focus for and how i tend to do it is i've
made it into a kind of habit so as soon as i wake up i drink two glasses of water and throughout the
day i usually have a bottle of water with me and i put it on my desk so that i keep seeing it so
every time i see it it reminds me that i need to drink more water it's even more important
for me now that i'm living in vietnam where the climate is a lot hotter so if you're living in
a hot climate too then it's definitely something that you should keep in mind eat healthily this
is another foundational element that you need to get right before really working on anything else
a study featured in the february 2011 edition of the journal of school health looked at the
correlation between drinking sugar-laden soda on a regular basis and academic performance
among students in the us and the study found that when the students limited their soda intake their
academic performance improved significantly it concluded that eating and drinking healthily has
a positive impact on academic performance among students and as a side note in addition to dietary
changes the study also concluded an increase in physical activity among the students finding that
eating healthily and regular exercise was the most effective combination to improve academic
performance hustle culture hustle culture is almost becoming fashionable these days and if you
look at my videos two or three years ago i also kind of pushed that message too this message of
study hard no matter how you're feeling just keep going and going and going but i'm kind of
trying to take a step back from that now i mean i absolutely think you should push yourself even if
you're feeling tired and you want to procrastinate you should push through that you should push
through it but just keep in mind that you should be prioritizing your health above everything else
but that's also why i made this video too because i do want you to be pushing yourself and becoming
the best version of yourself but i want you to do it in a sustainable and healthy way but if you
follow all the tips in this video i'm sure you're not going to have a problem with that patience
being able to study for 12 hours a day is not easy firstly as i said at the beginning of the video
you shouldn't be trying to study 12 hours a day every day in the long term for short bursts before
your exams show but in the long term you should be focusing on studying more efficiently and more
intensely rather than studying for longer periods and i made a video on how exactly to do that how
you can make your studying more efficient so you don't have to study as long you can click on the
card on the screen alternatively i also made a video on six high performance habits of successful
people they're both really important videos so whichever one you choose i'll see you over there