how can you decrease the number of hours you study while at the same time learning more and achieving
higher grades how can you decrease your studying from say 10 hours a day to studying just six hours
a day but you achieve higher grades in your exams with the six hours a day studying rather than
the 10 hours a day studying and this is something that i've been thinking about quite a lot recently
and it all boils down to one word efficiency how can you make your studying as efficient
as possible to the point where there's one student studying for six hours and another
student studying for 10 hours but they both get the same grades in their exams so
i say this quite often on this channel you don't need to be studying 14 hours a day every day
in fact for 99.9 percent of you you shouldn't be doing that it's not sustainable it's not healthy
it's not an effective long-term strategy again for 99.9 percent of you there is probably 0.1 percent
of you watching this where studying 14 hours a day or more seven days a week is the right way to go
but that's another topic for another video and i talk more about how many hours you should be
studying in the course that i'm launching on the 29th of march to transform your grades in 30 days
course it involves 38 days of video lessons quizzes a workbook a productivity planner
an inner circle private community and personal support and guidance for myself there's a link
in the description that you can click on for more information so what i do recommend is studying
for six hours a day eight hours a day ten hours a day it might not seem like a lot especially
just studying for six hours a day but if in those six hours you're firing on all cylinders you're
laser focused you're in a complete state of flow then that six hours of studying a day can often
be enough to achieve phenomenal grades to rank in the top five percent of your class to be accepted
into some of the highest ranked universities in the country however and it's a big however you
need to train your brain into being able to study with 100 focus for that entire six hours so that
means no distractions no social media no youtube no emails no reddit just complete and utter focus
on your studying and i receive a lot of requests from you guys about how to do this because
it's a habit so it can take anywhere from three weeks to two months or even longer to get there
however i'm gonna go over a few tips to help keep you in 100 state of focus to the point
where you can entirely lose track of time like mihai chi semi hai the author of the book flow
state wrote the best moments in our lives are not the passive receptive relaxing time
the best moments usually occur if a person's body or mind is stretched to his limits in a voluntary
effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile study at your biological peak time
so a person's biological peak time is a time that they feel the most awake and energized so for me
it's the first couple of hours in the morning and the last couple of hours before i sleep
everyone's biological peak time is different and i know some people that always feel terrible in
the morning but they're by far the most productive at nighttime and even into the early hours of the
morning and you need to know when your biological peak time is because it's extremely difficult to
get into a flow state if you are low on energy work on one very specific task to enter into a
state of flow you need to stay focused on one very specific task it's no good switching from one task
to another to another because every time you do that it takes your brain at least a good five
or ten minutes to regain focus and enter into a state of flow again and normally i'll have
one main task to do each day the single most important task that needs to get done
it can take two hours it can take five hours but whatever it is i do that first and i plan that out
on the day before and i'll write it on the task list on my phone so as soon as i wake up in the
morning i know exactly what needs to get done that day and a lot of people think productivity is just
doing a lot of things but i don't think that's necessarily true productivity for me is about
getting the most important tasks done the things that will bring you closer to your overall goal
and managing to do that consistently and long term eliminate all external distractions this is maybe
an obvious one but it's something that so many of us still fall victim to including myself sometimes
because although it might seem easy and obvious to remove external distractions like our phone
our social media or youtube when we're studying in reality it's a surprisingly difficult thing to do
because we live in a world where we almost have to be constantly communicating with other people
but it's important to realize that it is okay to completely disconnect yourself from the world
around you in fact if you want to reach a state of flow it's almost necessary that you do that every
time you get distracted from a notification on your phone every time you open a new tab
on your browser and get distracted on youtube it will take you further away from a flow state
only when you can concentrate with undivided attention for at least 10-15 minutes you can
enter into a flow state an external distractions would be a phone any sorts of notification from
social media facebook instagram etc basically anything that can interrupt your focus so
go to a quiet environment where you're not going to have anyone distracting you close all browser
tabs remove anything on your desk that might distract you it should just be you your laptop
and your study material and what i normally do is put my phone behind my laptop so i can't see it so
out of sight out of mind eliminate all internal distractions sometimes what is stopping you from
entering a state of flow are the thoughts that are going on in your head and this is really important
you need to be in a good mental state in order to enter a state of flow these are internal
distractions rather than external distractions and are slightly more complicated to get rid
of it could be that you're under a lot of stress or have too many things on your mind
and here are a few things that you can do the first is journaling journaling can help improve
your mindset improve your mood by helping you prioritize any problems fears or concerns you
might have it will also track any symptoms day to day so that you can recognize triggers and
learn ways to better control them and finally it provides an opportunity to identify any negative
thoughts and behaviors the second way to eliminate internal distractions is through meditation so
just 10 minutes of meditating a day and 10 minutes isn't that long can reset your mind so you can
decrease the amount of procrastination you do and lead to a more productive life study environment
this is something that i've been thinking about quite a lot recently because over the last two to
three months i've realized actually how important my study environment is in order to enter a state
of flow now i know it's important it's only recently that i've started to realize actually
how important it is so i usually work in one of two places the first place is my office which i'm
in right now and i use it more of a studio than an office and i come here obviously to record these
videos and i do more concentration intensive tasks here so that's where i need complete
silence and the second place i work is in coffee shops and this is what i've learned recently
there's one coffee shop that has just the right amount of background noise has just the
right amount of background music has the perfect lighting it's just a perfect working environment
and since i started going there to work it's so incredibly easy to enter into a flow state in
fact it's a 24-hour coffee shop and sometimes i'm working there until two in the morning
just because i'm so laser focused on what i'm doing so yeah recently i'm starting to realize
that having the perfect study environment is super important to reach a state of low background music
i'm going to cover this really quickly because i've talked about it quite a lot on this channel
already but listening to the right music could also increase your attention span
there have been a lot of research that shows that quiet classical music especially from composers
such as mozart and beethoven can be really useful for this even just sound effects like ocean waves
or the sound of rain can really help and there's literally thousands of videos on youtube that do
exactly this the task must be engaging the tasks must be challenging enough but not too challenging
if you want to reach flow state the task that you are planning must challenge your brain enough for
you to be completely engaged remember the feeling when you first start the next level of the game it
stimulates your emotions that you are so excited to upgrade your skills to overcome that level
even when you're playing that game for hours and hours at a time you completely lose track of time
it's probably because of three things number one is fun obviously number two it's not too difficult
and number three it's not too easy and if it was too difficult or too easy you'd probably lose
interest relatively quickly keep practicing being able to study for hours at a time with complete
focus takes time at first it's really not easy to do but the more you practice at it the easier it
becomes each time you fail and you get distracted try to learn from it what was it that distracted
you is there a way to remove that distraction for next time so that it doesn't happen again
and equally every time you succeed you should also learn from it what did you do right
and the more you practice the better you'll get i go into this topic in more detail on how to
study less so how to study for a few hours during the day but still learn more through your study
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