success is like a quiet daily set of tasks
real real small it's like that quiet walk to the library
that empty 24 7 library late at night over and over and over or as i sit there
studying other great people and i compare their
actions with my own actions over and over and over or as i sit doing
30 minutes of meditation a day over and over and over making the choice
to eat foods that enhance my brain neurotransmitters
over and over and over it's a very quiet process
where you're doing these simple little tasks but finding love in those simple
little tasks it's not the big thing where you do this
one thing and something big happens being able to make a success out of your
life it's not purely down to luck you have more control over it than you
think you can decide to be successful you can decide to have the fast cars and
the big house and it starts right here with your
studying not because getting good grades is going
to bring you success in the future it's about the work ethic and the
attitude you have towards your studying that will transfer to your work after
you graduate it's about believing that you can achieve something
and doing whatever it takes to achieve it it's about fine-tuning the skills you
have to zero in on your goals the skills that
you are improving while you're studying work ethic time
management reading critical thinking problem
solving decision making focus reasoning
persuasion organization overcoming obstacles
and self-motivation these are all skills that all great students have improved
and refined over years of efficient and effective studying and it's these
students that have made a decision that when the
world is saying that's impossible you're not capable your dreams will stay
as dreams they have that lone voice that goes no
you know what it is possible just watch me
they have gone through this process of growth and they have pushed and pushed
through all the obstacles that were thrown at them it's important that you
don't think of your studying as though it's all about passing your exams and
getting a piece of paper at the end of it all
so you can get a good job because it's so much more than that
and it's the great students that understand this it's not about your
exams it's about the process and the journey
you go on and the skills you refine over the years it's about when you don't
feel like studying but you continue to push through and study anyway
it's doing the things that you need to do that you know you need to do
when you don't feel like doing it because the reality is
is that most people can study when they're feeling good most people can
study when they have no distractions when they're in a quiet environment when
there's pressure put on them as a deadline is approaching
but just being able to study on the highs isn't good enough
you have to be able to study all the time so learning how to refocus your
mind on the lows and knowing the lows are going to end is
a huge skill the process is just as important as the
actual prize because the process is going to make you
the deeper the process the greater the reward
just remember the prize is going to be huge
the question i get most is how do i make myself study
when i just don't feel like it by the end of this video
you'll know exactly how to make yourself sit down and study even when you're
feeling exhausted the way my brain works i would rather
die than not study when i know i have to now of course i
don't mean that literally but it's an important perspective that a
lot of successful people that are at the top of their craft have
will smith said something similar if we get on the treadmill together
there's two things you're getting off first or i'm going to
die it's really that simple and as owen cook explains it a lot of
people that are successful use death as an analogy not because they
really want to die but rather because there's no other
possibility so when someone says i'd rather die what it really means is
that there's a zero percent chance so what i've found if i have it on my
schedule that i need to study for two hours
tonight when i get home there's a zero percent chance that i
will miss that study session because i know that if i miss one day
then i'll go on to miss another and then another
there's no convenient time for me to study it is 100
inconvenient so once i've made that decision to go
i'm going to stick to that decision why because if i
fail in that decision i will fail in my larger scale goals
let me explain most people i know that have a job that they hate
they don't try very hard at their job this is very common
and the rationalization is that my boss is a bad manager
this job just isn't for me i don't get paid enough
but everything is practiced for the big show everything is preparation
for the huge opportunities that may unexpectedly jump in front of you
so if you can't make yourself work hard in a job you don't particularly like
how are you going to run a multi-million dollar company as an executive director
or save lives as a top surgeon or fight for justice as one of the best lawyers
in the country if you can't study for just two hours on
a night when you're feeling tired how are you going to achieve anything in
your career after you graduate you're not
a work ethic is something that is cultivated over time
and the hardest part of it is that you're your worst enemy
because you can always give up i mean you still need to be flexible
if i'm really run down and starting to feel sick and my body's telling me that
i need rest and it's an exception to the rule then
yes maybe i can unwind and sleep early that night without studying
but assuming it's just the typical i'm tired excuse
then i'm gonna carve out that time because i know that if i fail to do that
i'm not instilling those habits and it's going to affect
whether i reach my long-term goal because those excuses will snowball
and i know you know what i mean because we've all been there
we feel tired so we don't study and the next day
we feel tired again so we don't study again
you need to rewire your brain train your brain to ignore
how you're feeling and just focus it's like a muscle just keep working on
it
being great is going to take sacrifices it's going to take time it's going to
take energy it's a constant battle of going
the extra mile doing things that other people are not
prepared to do putting in the hours that other people
are not prepared to put in waking up before other people are
willing to wake up preparing for exams before anyone else
in your class are willing to start preparing
it's not an easy journey that's why there's not many people who achieve
greatness because by its very nature only the top
one percent are able to reach it because only the one percent are willing to pay
the price only one percent have the attitude of a
winner only one percent are willing to do
whatever it takes they do not take the easy way
out you need to train your mind to push back
on the negative thoughts train your mind to say
get up go keep fighting and if that's what you
become if that becomes your gut instinct
if that becomes your natural reaction when negative thoughts pop up in your
mind you will overcome just about anything
that stands in your path
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