so i've been thinking about this quite a lot recently what's the difference between a high
performance student and a high performance person and by high performance person i mean someone
who has already graduated they're making a living doing whatever they're doing but they're extremely
successful at it they're lightly incredibly wealthy at the top of their game or industry
they've just got their life in check and you can see that they're having a massive positive impact
and as a result achieving massive success because it's quite a controversial subject
just because someone is getting good grades and successful at school and university are those
skills transferable to the real world so in this video i'm going to go through six high performance
habits of successful students that also translate to high performance habits in the real world too
so if you're doing these things at university or at school if you're doing these things then
there's a good chance if you continue carrying out these habits regularly that you're going to be
successful after you graduate too study to learn not for the exam high performance students are not
just studying because they want to memorize just enough information to do well in the exam they are
studying because they genuinely want to learn they are hungry for knowledge and this is equally the
same for people that are incredibly successful in the real world too it's just a different form of
education so at university you're studying a formal education with a set curriculum and
exams whereas in the real world you're studying an informal education with no set curriculum
so for example i studied economics and finance at university i studied economics because i'm
interested about the world economy on the trade war between the us and china on the global
inequality and unequal economic development but i'm also interested in money in stocks and shares
in personal finance in how corporations handle and manage their money so throughout my whole
economics and finance degree i was always relating what i was learning at university to the real
world and that leads me on nicely onto habit number two keep up to date with current affairs
i've not met one single person that is incredibly successful and they don't know what's going on
in the real world they all know vast amounts of knowledge in the industry that they're in
and that they're successful in but they also know about the conflict between gaza and israel for
example or the latest plans set out by president biden and for me every single morning for the last
i don't know seven eight years the first thing i'd do after my alarm goes off in the morning
is open up the bbc news app on my phone and be updated with what's going on around the world
and the benefits i find in reading the news just for 10 minutes or so in the morning
is that it keeps me up to date with current affairs i keep up with what's going on around
the world and it really gives me more perspective in that there's more going on around the world
than what i'm seeing in front of me in my own life it was particularly beneficial for me as someone
who studied for an economics degree because it provides news about countries economic situations
the trade wars going on around the world and a lot of the theory that i was learning at university i
could then apply them in real life and almost see things play out with real countries and
real economies they invest in themselves high performance students are not afraid to invest
in themselves to spend money or other resources to build their skill set up they know that one
of the biggest investments they can make is in themselves so i launched the product here on 30
days transformation challenge a couple of months ago there's a link in the description below but
in that course i'm working with one-on-one some incredibly high performance students and i mean
students that really are in the top one percent or even in the top 0.5 in some cases and i'm
coaching them and supporting them to squeeze out every inch of performance that they have
but just talking to these students i can see the inspiration and motivation and the drive that they
have in their voices it really is incredible it's incredibly inspiring for me just to talk to them
but they're not afraid to invest in themselves because they know that the more they invest in
themselves the more they buy courses the more they read books the more they hire a tutor or
study coach the more they go to networking events they move one step closer to achieving their goals
calculated risks high performance students take risks just like in the real world in order to
achieve massive success you can achieve that by staying in your comfort zone so for example i've
never been any good at maths throughout high school maths was one of my weakest subjects
by a long way but there was one problem i wanted to study economics and finance but my course was
extremely maths intensive so i could have done one of two things i could have chose a different
degree like business administration or marketing or something like that that involves less maths
or i could bite the bullet take the risk and just study economics and finance anyway but double down
on my weakness so doubling down on the mass and that's what i chose to do economics was also a
far more demanding and intensive course compared with other subjects like business and marketing
so the percentage of people that graduated with a 4.0 gpa in economics was less than five percent
whereas the people that graduated from 4.0 gpa in business and marketing was over 10
so i could have made my life so much easier i could have gone the easier route in so many ways
but i chose not to and i'm so glad that i didn't i genuinely believe i've grown so much more
as a person because my university course was so difficult if it was easy there's no growth in that
self-care high performance students look after themselves they get seven to eight hours of sleep
a night they eat healthily they exercise regularly they socialize regularly they prioritize their
mental and physical health above everything else if their studying is prioritized in second place
their health comes in first place and this is because they're looking at the big picture
they have long-term goals they want to achieve they're not living like animals living every
day as it comes and not really thinking about or preparing or building themselves up for the future
and they know that they need to be healthier in order to achieve their goals they know that
they need to be healthy to achieve incredible success in the long term
so everyone can pull an overnighter everyone can cram in their revision the night before an
exam but how long can they keep going and keep doing that until they start burning out so a
high-performing students make sure that their life is balanced they are prioritizing their studying
and studying intensely when it is time to study which gives them time to do extra things like
hang out with friends and network and exercise because they know that for their mental and
physical health these things are essential visualization visualization is an incredibly
powerful success strategy and it's used by some of the most successful business people millionaires
billionaires world leaders olympic athletes so take olympic athlete for example an olympic runner
right before a race when there's thousands or even millions of people staring at them they
know that the worst thing they can do is visualize all the things that could possibly go wrong right
so tripping up at the start line when the race begins or coming in last place at the finish line
and well-trained athletes know not to visualize the failures because imagining poor performance
increases the likelihood that the runner will actually do those things during the race
so instead they visualize their goals right before the race they visualize themselves winning the
race they visualize themselves smashing the world record and by focusing on the positives
that outcome is far more likely to happen and throughout university i was doing this without
even realizing it i was visualizing opening the letter with my grades on it and seeing that 4.0
gpa there and there was absolutely no doubt in my mind that that would happen at no point in
the three years studying for my degree did i think i wasn't going to achieve my main goal
of achieving a 4.0 gpa and dan pena who was an american businessman who made his success
in the oil industry in the 80s and he talks quite a lot about visualization
he says that when he was young he'd go into luxury car dealerships like ferrari and rolls royce and
sit in the cars and visualize themselves buying them in the future when he becomes successful
he called this process smelling the leather because when he was visualizing buying the cars
he would literally smell the brand new leather and gran cardone also did a similar thing where
he would go to luxury estates and find massive million dollar mansions that were for sale and
pretend that he was going to buy them so he'd call up the real estate company and book a viewing even
though at the time he was in his own words poor and had no money it was the idea of visualizing
something so deeply that you match your actions with your visualization and you make it happen
because a lot of being a high performance person is just self-belief you really need to vehemently
believe that you can achieve whatever you're aiming for if you genuinely genuinely believe and
i mean if you really believe that you can graduate in the top one percent of your class and you study
towards it but not only towards your goals but you study beyond it you study on a level that
is higher that is beyond your goal then there's no doubt that you'll achieve it and if you want
to become a high performance student and achieve the top grades in your class or even if you just
want to level up your studying and achieve the next grade up then i walk you through it
through the 30 days of training in the transform your grades in 30 days challenge there's a link
in the description below i provide one-on-one coaching there's a private facebook community
there's a there's worksheets there's exercises there's quizzes it's aimed to be able to transform
your grades and give you a massive boost within 30 days and right now there's a 50 discount offer
so if you do decide to take me up on that offer i'll see you over there