i'm going to say straight away studying for 14 hours a day is not needed for 99 of you
it just isn't if you find yourself having to study 14 hours a day then you need to either
learn how to study smarter so you can reduce the time you're studying or you need to manage
your time better because you're having to cram in your studying before the exam however if you
need to study for 14 hours a day which i don't recommend but if you do need to study these kind
of crazy hours then it's absolutely essential that you do it in a healthy and sustainable
way so in this video i'm gonna go through five steps on how you can study 14 hours a day but in
a healthy way because at the end of the day your health should always come first and just before
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step 1 take breaks this video is all about studying 14 hours a day or just studying
long hours in general right it doesn't necessarily have to be 14 hours a day but studying long hours
in a healthy and sustainable way so one of the most important things you need to keep in mind to
just kind of keep your sanity really is to take breaks now there are two different types of breaks
there's your short breaks and your lung breaks so the shorter breaks meaning every 25 minutes
or every 13 minutes you should be standing up from your desk and moving around so not just
sitting in the same place for too long right you need to give your brain a rest your eyes a rest
your body your rest and by doing this you'll be able to stay focused for longer periods of time
there's no point studying for 14 hours a day if you're not actually focused and you're not
retaining any information right and the pomodoro technique is a great way of reinforcing regular
breaks it's basically where you set a timer called the pomodoro on your phone for 25 minutes
and the app will lock your phone so you're less likely to get distracted then after 25 minutes
you take a five minute break and basically you keep doing this it's a really healthy way
of studying long hours because the pomodoro timer is always kind of reminding you to take regular
breaks and i go into way more detail on the pomodoro technique and dozens of other incredibly
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to a website for more information on it so the second type of break is the long break so this
is taking maybe a week off every now and then at least a few days off every so often and this
is something that i honestly struggle a bit with but i'm actively trying to take more time off like
at least a few days every month just to unwind and recalibrate at the end of the day your life is for
living so it's important not to get too obsessed with your work step two look after yourself the
main reason why i don't recommend studying for 14 hours a day every day in the long term is because
it's just not sustainable it's not healthy for you so let's say you have 24 hours in a day and you
have a healthy sleep schedule with eight hours of sleep a night so you have 16 hours left in the day
then you spend say two hours showering getting ready eating commuting that kind of thing
now you have 14 hours left and you spend that entire 14 hours studying all of it
and then what it doesn't leave much room for a balanced lifestyle right so you need to also
focus on other areas of your life like hanging out with friends exercising that kind of thing so if
you are studying crazy hours then do keep that in mind eat healthily exercise sleep well these are
all the things that will help with your grades in the long term it doesn't make sense at least to me
it doesn't make sense to be putting so much work and so much effort into your education into your
studying into your grades but then neglect your health so that eventually you run out of steam and
burn out right so maybe it's the most important step in this video to studying 14 hours a day
look after yourself step 3 social learning social learning is basically where you study with someone
else or studying small groups usually with a friend or friends it's a great way of breaking up
a 14-hour study session where you're just sitting alone at your desk studying by yourself because
that can get quite monotonous after a while right so i was in that situation often where
i'd be studying i don't know 12 hours a day but i was so tired that i would slip into this kind of
passive studying mode where i'd be reading a book for example but i honestly wouldn't be processing
any of the information and it just wouldn't be sinking in and it's super important that you try
to avoid passive studying at all costs because it's such a big waste of time it's the complete
opposite of studying smart and i made an entire video on it study smart not hard passive versus
active studying you can click on the pop-up banner above to watch it so by switching things up by
studying with other people it can be a really effective strategy in terms of staying engaged
with your studying so you continue to process and retain what you're studying so i used to study
with friends quite often at university and it was more fun i guess than studying all day every day
alone right and it just felt like i was taking a break from my studying and socializing a bit
but in a productive way if that makes sense so even though i was studying with my friends it
would feel like i was chilling out and if i was struggling with a particular topic or subject
then i could ask one of my friends to explain it and likewise if they were struggling with
something then i could kind of teach them too and that way i'd be taking advantage of
the feynman technique where i'd be teaching someone else and i'd inadvertently be learning
the material better myself because i'm teaching them however it's important that you don't get
distracted and lose focus on your actual studying studying with a partner or in a small group of
up to four people is usually most effective so try to partner up with people who will inspire you to
study so people who are as motivated or even more motivated than you choose a study buddy that will
hold you accountable and not distract you with what they were doing on the weekends for example
step four socialize socializing at school at university is so incredibly important but it's
kind of this double-edged sword where a lot of people they either socialize too much to the point
that it's affecting their grades or they socialize too little to the point where they kind of isolate
themselves it's important to relax to kind of hang out with friends socialize do all the things that
you should be doing at school or university so by putting yourself out there and joining social
clubs and societies and going to parties and going out to dinner with your friends it allows you to
kind of develop relationships with people from other cultures from other countries as well as
hone in on the social skills that you're just not taught in your regular school or university
curriculum it will also help you build your self-confidence and it's a great way to de-stress
after a challenging exam but overall it will just make you happier right and you'll enjoy your
studying and your education much more as a result and it's incredibly important that you do find
your studying interesting especially if you're aiming to be studying 14 hours a day studying
for those number of hours if you don't find your studying interesting or at least engaging
can be a real struggle and to help with that i made a video a couple of months back on 13 ways
you can make your studying more fun you can click right here on the pop-up banner above to watch
it step 5 be mindful of hustle culture so hustle culture is becoming more and more of an issue with
students these days there's increasing pressure to achieve exceptional grades university placements
at the top universities are just getting more and more competitive so if you are studying these kind
of crazy hours then please make sure you're mindful as hustle culture and you don't fall
into the trap that many students do and the reason why hustle culture is so controversial is actually
very very simple and it's more about priorities and problems arise when you prioritize your work
or your studying higher than your happiness and higher than your health that's when hustle culture
becomes a problem so for example if you've been studying for 10 hours a day you're mentally and
physically exhausted right because you've only been getting two or three hours sleep a night
but you just keep going at the detriment of your mental and physical health and that right there
is the problem so there are two main things that you need to keep in mind firstly your mental and
physical health should always be prioritized above everything and i say this all the time on this
channel i think our health is something that as a society is often overlooked and we just don't
give it the respect that it deserves whatever we want to achieve in life whether it's to achieve
huge success in whatever way you define the term success or whether it's just be the best mother
or father or the best son or the best daughter you possibly can be having our health is fundamental
in order to achieve anything in life so that should be your first priority and the second thing
you need to keep in mind is your happiness if you're working 12 hours a day but you hate your
job you're living for the weekends and you're just not happy then what's the point right a
lot of people are trapped in this idea of hustle culture because working like crazy but it's making
them miserable and in that case i suggest finding work that you actually want to do that you're
passionate about because it really is important that if you're spending eight nine 10 hours a day
every day doing it then you're going to want to enjoy it just makes sense right so i guess from
this video i just want to communicate this idea that the vast majority of people don't need to be
studying 14 hours a day every day long term if you are finding yourself in that position then it's
very likely that you need to decrease the number of hours you're studying but study smarter and
i've made multiple videos on that video to help you one of them i uploaded recently called study
50 less memory hacks that work and another video called study smart not hard passive versus active
studying you can click on the end cards on the screen both really important videos aim to help
you reduce the number of hours you're studying and whichever video you click i'll see you over there