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one of the most common comments that i
get on my videos is how do you stay
focused for so long while studying how
can you sit there for four hours and
maintain your focus not get distracted
etc let's break it down
before we even start if you're serious
about maintaining deep focus and not
getting distracted whilst you study then
you absolutely have to
take your phone and throw it away
somewhere far and out of sight and out
of reach where you can't touch it if
you're not willing to get rid of your
phone while you study then you're always
going to be distracted by it it's isaac
newton's fourth law of distraction by
the way
the first thing i do which i think is
really easy and often overlooked by
other students is just getting
everything that you might need over the
course of your study session and putting
it on your desk before you sit down that
way you have no reason to leave your
desk and get distracted somewhere else
in the house or the library or wherever
you are common things i get are a lot of
coffee or tea or sparkling water
whatever it is that i want to drink to
keep me going throughout the session
then of course snacks are essential as
well for when i start to get peckish i
usually have some fruit with me apples
tangerines bananas grapes whatever and
then for example let's say you need to
do a bunch of writing with lots of
different colored pens for flowcharts or
diagrams or something like that before
you sit down get your ruler get your
calculator get your pens your pencils
everything that you need within an arm's
reach if you need to at some point start
using a textbook then get that and put
it on your desk as well all from the
very beginning that way when you sit
down you're in the studying zone with
everything you need around you and you
have no reason to get up wonder and get
distracted somewhere else personally for
me when i'm studying i find that any
time that i get up and off of my desk
that's when prime distraction hits you
know my sister will come out of her room
and she'll be like hey nasser i want to
chill for five minutes or i'll be
tempted to check my phone or whatever i
just won't want to sit back down and so
the longer i can keep myself on my desk
the better i'm gonna do over the long
run
this honestly might be my hidden
superpower it's like a productivity hack
that i swear nobody uses before any
study day i have the night before or the
day before i always always always decide
what it is that i'm going to be doing
the next morning that way when i wake up
i brush my teeth i have my breakfast i
chill and watch a youtube video whatever
i'm not thinking about studying i'm not
worried about what i'm going to be
studying i'm just completely chill
relaxing and enjoying myself then when i
sit down on my desk and it's time to get
studying i just check my schedule or my
plan and i look at what i told myself i
was going to do the day before or the
night before or whatever this immensely
reduces the decision fatigue around what
should i study when should i start how
long is it going to take me how long
should i sit down for i just sit down
and i study for a four hour block this
reduction in the amount of time that i
need in order to get studying makes
studying easy and effortless and
beginning studying is often the hardest
part so if you can have these tips and
tricks to sort of get you in that
beginning zone then the rest will just
take care of itself
this is another easy one to do but
people just often forget about it
obviously we already talked about
getting rid of your phone but you can
also use apps and software to blacklist
websites like youtube or facebook or tik
tok or whatever you can also put on a
pair of noise cancelling headphones to
block out your environment or if your
house is too busy and chaotic you can
always go to a coffee shop or a library
there's so many things that we can do to
change our surrounding environment
everything else around us actually
sitting down study that makes the
studying easier and simpler to do also
just close all of your desktop apps that
might get you distracted maybe things
like steam discord whatsapp messenger
you name it whatever it is that might
distract you just close it get it out of
sight and make it more difficult for
yourself to just move your mouse and
click something else that i like to do
is whenever i sit down study i open a
new tab on my browser on justgoogle.com
and that way in the middle of my
studying when i click my browser in
order to google something that i wanted
to check on i'm not immediately faced
with the last thing that i was doing on
my computer like youtube.com for example
or researching flights for an upcoming
holiday or online clothes shopping or
whatever i'm greeted with a blank google
page which reminds me that oh yeah i
actually clicked on safari because i
wanted to do something work related and
i don't get distracted as easily
so studying in groups has always been
and will always be a key component of my
studying the reason for this is that
accountability is a really useful
extrinsic motivating factor that can
help keep us focused and keep us
studying having a study partner whether
that's in the library physically or on
zoom or in a study with me focus group
on discord like we have over on my
patreon the karma club link in the
description down below can be so so
helpful just knowing that other people
around you are working hard focused and
studying can really help you study and
stay focused yourself i love having that
accountability in my life because as
soon as i start to lose sort of the
internal motivation or internal drive to
keep studying i get the external
motivation from the other people around
me because i know that we're all going
through the same thing the same
experiences at the same time
now getting up and walking around every
hour might seem counterintuitive to what
i've been saying above but i think it
has its role changing your environment
the scenery that's in front of you the
atmosphere of what you've been staring
at for a couple of hours whether that's
a textbook or a computer screen can be
really really helpful you know when you
get to those points in the study session
where no more information is entering
your brain the lines are like almost
blurry and just nothing makes sense
honestly getting up to grab a cup of
water a cup of coffee a snack walking
around a little bit just seeing
something else and thinking about
something else besides what's in front
of you makes a huge huge difference but
don't make the mistake of taking your
phone with you because then you just
spend the whole time on your phone
without getting actual rest and
relaxation from the work that you were
doing before and you're bound to get
distracted by checking some social media
app on your phone now getting up and
walking around is not a waste of time
you're getting up clearing your mind and
getting refreshed so that when you come
back and sit down in front of your desk
you're good to go again
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honestly having a plan probably should
have gone further up in my list plans
are my best friend and if you don't
already make plans for your studying
please start i promise you're not going
to regret making one and it just helps
make life so much easier if at the
beginning of your day you make a
skeleton or an outline of what you're
going to be doing that day and what
you're hoping to achieve by one hour of
work by two hours of work etc it can a
help you stay on track but also b
motivate you as you complete those
smaller tasks and breaking up your
bigger day into those smaller tasks and
pieces makes them much more manageable
to do i always say that i couldn't be
nearly as productive as i am without
planning it helps me so much and if you
don't already make them i'd highly
recommend you give it a go and all right
that is it those are my five best tips
for maintaining deep focus i hope that
you've enjoyed this video and happened
to take one or two valuable things away
from it if you're interested in joining
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it for me i'll catch you in the next one
peace
you