if you're aiming to achieve exceptionally high grades or even just good grades you need to be
able to train your mind to sit down and study for long periods of time and that's just how it is
there's no way around it and so before i started university i did a lot of research and preparation
on how to study on how to train my mind to be able to sit down and focus on my studying
for hours and hours without feeling fatigue or getting distracted i was told by students that
were already studying the degree that i was about to start economics and finance that i was in for
the toughest exams i'd ever experienced and they weren't wrong the exams were tough and it took a
lot of hard work and long days of studying and late nights but throughout the three years of
my degree in the final year studying for 12 hours in a day was actually relatively easy
so in my first year at university i would get distracted a lot easier i would feel tired in
the middle of the day i would lose concentration but using specific study techniques and habits by
the third year it was relatively easy to study for 12 hours a day and in this video i'm going
to show you exactly how you can train your mind to do the same and most of the things in this
video i go into far more detail in the transform your grades in 30 days course i recently launched
if you're struggling to focus on your studying for anything more than a few hours a day then
the course will almost definitely help you you can click on the link in the description to find out
more about it have one clear goal so this is super important goal setting is huge we all know that
it's well documented there have been countless studies on how goals help promote productivity
and significantly improved the overall outcome but what worked for me what motivated me to be
able to study for 12 hours a day was that before even starting my studying at university i had one
single goal just one and that was to graduate with a first-class honours degree equivalent to a 4.0
gpa you see i'd never achieved that grade before at high school for anything not even for one exam
so my overall grade at high school was a 1.3 gpa so that was a huge goal for me to achieve a 4.0
and i knew that it was a huge goal i knew that it was going to be incredibly difficult and that's
why i only had the one goal you see a lot of people they have three goals four goals five goals
but the more goals you have the lower the probability you have of achieving them because
you have to divide your time and resources between all of the goals however if you just have one and
that is clear that is well defined that is time sensitive so you have a deadline of when you need
to achieve it by then you can focus all your time and resources towards that one target and for me i
was aiming for a 4.0 gpa so i'd make sure that my studying was going far beyond that so let's
say if i thought that seven hours of studying every day would be enough to achieve a 4.0 gpa
then i'd study for nine hours a day so that's two hours more than i needed to the idea being
that you don't want to just achieve your goal but you want to absolutely destroy it you want to put
so much time and resources behind achieving it that there's no way you're not going to achieve it
and that's where my mindset was at university and he paid off i did end up achieving my main goal
and i had some smaller goals too that would support my main goal so some of those were
to go to the gym five days a week another one was to study at least eight hours a day
both of those would help me move closer to my main aim build your self-esteem
now this is something that i feel so passionately about because i've been on both sides i cover
this topic self-esteem in far more depth in the transform your grades course because it's so so
so important when i was achieving average grades at high school or below average grades in many
cases it was because my self-esteem was so low my confidence was so low i didn't believe that i was
capable of achieving really good grades therefore i didn't even study for them why would i study for
a grades if i didn't believe that i was capable of achieving them right so it would be a complete
waste of time and that's the trap that i fell into at high school and it's sad because i get
emails and dms and comments on my videos every day where i can see that the students just don't
believe in themselves they have low self-esteem they just don't know what they're truly capable
of and it's like i just want to shake them and tell them what they're thinking right now it's
a self-fulfilling prophecy if you don't think that you're capable of doing well in your exams
then it's just not going to happen and so to be able to stay focused and study for 12 hours
a day you need to have the confidence that if you do if you do study for 12 hours a day if you
do stay focused and study smart and really make those 12 hours count then you are going to smash
the exams when they come around there's no way that that's not going to happen but you first
need to believe in yourself and second you need to study smart studying for 12 hours
doesn't necessarily guarantee you to achieve high grades because you need to study hard but you also
need to study smart and i made a whole video on the concept of studying hard and studying smart
and how i taught myself to study smart you can click on the pop-up banner to watch it be patient
as i mentioned earlier in the video it wasn't until i was in my third year at university
that studying for 12 hours a day became actually really easy it took about two to three hours of
daily practice to get to that stage i saw in some ways like going to the gym to grow more muscle
it doesn't happen overnight it takes years of training in the gym to get there and the mind is
the same it's a muscle that needs to be trained it takes time to learn how to stay focused for long
periods of time so if you're struggling to study even just let's say four hours a day then that's
completely okay what you need to do at this point is to be making steady incremental progress every
week so let's say you're struggling to study for four hours a day and then you keep working at it
until it becomes easier then after a few weeks or even a few months slowly increase it to five
hours and then to six hours and just work up from there but don't be too hard on yourself
you're going to have a good days and you're going to have bad days i had bad days all the
time where i could only study for a few hours that day and that's fine it's completely normal
but what's important though is that you start the next day with a refreshed mindset and learn from
any mistakes that you might have made the previous day at the beginning you will probably feel a huge
amount of resistance but as you keep working on increasing the amount of time you study like i did
that feeling of resistance should steadily subside have a study plan creating a study plan was for me
an incredibly effective way to make sure that i had covered all the topics i needed to cover
before the exam so i had been in this situation so many times where i had let's say
30 topics to study before an exam and i would start studying for them but i'd start running out
of time and the day before the exam i'd still have 10 to 15 topics to cover in 24 hours and then it
just turned into an overnight cramming session to cram in as many topics as i could before the exam
obviously that's not a great strategy so i started to make a study plan for each exam so that i could
spread out the topics evenly that i needed to cover before the exam after doing this it helped
me set aside enough time to complete homework assignments study for exams but also helped me
with managing my time outside of studying too so for me having a study plan was probably the single
best thing i did in terms of making university almost completely stress free i didn't have
to worry about cramming before an exam because i spread my workload over the entire semester rather
than leaving it too late my productivity increased because every time i knew exactly what topics i
needed to cover and because of all of this my studying was far more enjoyable and my grades
were far better it really was a win-win situation now it would be remiss of me not to mention that
i didn't study for 12 hours a day every day with my study plan in place and my workload spread out
across the entire semester i just didn't have to study for 12 hours every day so i was able
to fit in other things like exercise socializing that kind of thing so if you are studying hard and
pushing yourself to the limit please keep your mental and physical health in check your health
should always be prioritized above your studying and also please make sure you're taking regular
breaks especially if you're staring at a laptop for hours every day taking breaks will also help
with concentration as well and allow you to study for longer hours because it will give your brain
a rest and help stop you from getting distracted and also equally as important just because you're
studying for 12 hours a day it doesn't necessarily mean that you're going to ac exams you need to
study efficiently too i made a video recently on how i study less while learning more so basically
how i make every hour of studying as efficient as possible where i process and retain as much
information as possible you can click on the video on the screen and i'll see you over there