from what i've been seeing over the last five years or so of coaching and teaching
millions of students most of you are only operating at about 60 capacity
i've had the pretty unique opportunity where i've been able to dig into the minds of thousands of
students not only from reading their thousands of comments and feedback i get from this youtube
channel but also from the one-on-one coaching i do in the transform your grades challenge the links
in the description below for more information on that but when i'm coaching i'm able to really
dig deep and ask each student the real reason why they're not reaching their full potential
and i often ask my students in the course how many hours in the day you waste how many days in the
week do you waste and the answer i normally get back is about four to six hours a day is wasted on
things that just aren't helping in the long term like watching youtube like watching netflix social
media things of that nature so let's say you waste four hours every day doing mundane things that's
about 28 hours a week or 112 hours a month or 1 344 hours a year so let's say if your time is
worth 10 an hour which is a very low estimation your time is probably worth far more than that
but let's say for argument's sake it's worth 10 an hour so you're wasting over 13 dollars a year
and that's a lot of money you're wasting and you're wasting that right now and it's not just
the obvious things like the number of hours you're wasting watching daft videos on youtube but the
majority of us live so inefficiently and i'm no exception here the last couple of months i've been
thinking about this quite a lot how can i make my life more efficient and achieve significantly more
in the same amount of time and when it comes to your studying how can you study more
in less time because that's what you should really be aiming for this idea of studying smarter rather
than harder and it's a hot topic on this channel i made a video on how you can do exactly that
how you can study smarter not harder you can click on the pop-up banner above to watch it but
by studying more efficiently you can save hours in your day which can be better spent doing things
more productive so what would happen if you just stopped wasting your time what if you
started studying super efficiently and you dropped all the unproductive things you do during the day
that don't make you any happier long term and your day suddenly opened up just an extra five
hours right there right what would you do with those five hours it's almost limitless and jordan
peterson talks a fair bit about this on what could happen if you take those time-sucking habits out
of your daily schedule and so if your life isn't everything it could be you could ask yourself well
what would happen if you just stopped wasting the opportunities that are in front of you
you'd be who knows how much more efficient 10 times more efficient 20 times more efficient
that's the pareto distribution you have no idea how efficient efficient people get
it's completely it's off the charts and jocko willing mentioned in one of his podcasts
success and failure are generally slow processes either slowly building things up or slowly
tearing things down and that's why you have to pay attention you have to watch every second because
those seconds they turn into minutes and the minutes they turn into hours in the hours
they turn into days and the days turn into years so let's say you spend two hours watching youtube
and not watching videos that are good for you but watching in that kind of mindless
way that people do when they're not really paying attention they're just wanting to waste time how
about you try this to start off with how about you watch a documentary for two hours something
that you're studying if you're studying economics then a documentary on the us china trade wars if
you're studying medicine than a documentary on the kovid pandemic at least you'll be learning
something at least it's educational and it will be building you up the term you are what you eat is
thrown around quite a lot but in my opinion it's also true that you are what you consume you are
products of your environment we are what we watch we are what we listen to we are what we think
about all day so you need to program your mind and you do that by the content that you consume so
instead of listening to music on your commute listen to podcasts listen to audiobooks on
subjects that are in line with the life that you want to create and if you remove that two hours
of wasted time binge watching pointless videos on youtube and instead you replace it with two hours
of content consumption in a subject that will actually benefit you down the line a subject
that you want to be an expert in a subject that you want to build a career around in two or three
years you can be in the top five percent of your industry because once you get out of the mindset
of trying to kill time on instagram or trying to kill time on youtube and instead you use those
social media platforms and start investing that time on building yourself up and making yourself
more knowledgeable and smarter and more inspired it will dramatically improve the quality of your
life in terms of your happiness in terms of your health in terms of your finances and relationships
i mean it's a no-brainer start following people that inspire you subscribe to youtube channels
that pump you up rather than just suck all your time surround yourself with a digital
network that will encourage you to become the best version of yourself because what happens
if you don't what happens if every day you continue to just throw hours of your day out
of the window world is a short term and a long term consequence the short-term consequences
you feel bad right it's uncomfortable knowing that you're wasting your life you've been given
this one life you've been put on this earth to achieve incredible things but you just go
and waste it it doesn't feel good right and the long-term consequences you failed your exams you
don't get into the university you wanted to go to you end up in a mediocre job you live just above
the poverty line like most people do because if you're wasting so much time when you're this young
who's to say you're going to change that habit in five or ten years time when you're working
and if you continue to waste your time i mean you know how bad it can get you failed exams because
you didn't use your time efficiently you've had relationships negatively affected because of this
you know the opportunities you've missed because you've spent so much time procrastinating
you know how bad it can get and i'm so passionate about this message i'm trying to kind of
get this message across that we should at least consider stopping just mindlessly letting life
pass us by because i've lived most of my life like that up until about seven years ago when i made
the decision to sort my life out and live more intentionally and start putting more effort in
i realized that the more effort i put in the more i put into life the more i would get out of it
but in many ways i'm glad that i wasted a lot of my youth spending 14 hours a day playing video
games neglecting my studying living life in a very passive way because i learned so much along
the way i know how bad it can get i was a little bit late getting into the game but i was still
young my late teens early 20s when i started to kind of make that transition from being
unmotivated and unproductive and wasting so much of my life to actually getting back on
track and putting in the effort and putting in the work and making things happen and now
i'm so much more motivated to teach others not to live the life that i lived because honestly
it's depressing it's such a waste and i'm kind of wanting to use the transformation
that i've made in my own life and try and inspire others to also make that same transformation too
it's also why i created the transformer grades in 30 days program it took me almost a year to
make it because i wanted to have it perfect before launching and at the end of the day
we only have one life time is finite so wasting your time on youtube or netflix or whatever
else you want to waste your life on is so incredibly destructive but the vast majority of us
don't realize actually how destructive if you add all the wasted hours up so i think one of
the most effective things we can do to cut out all the inefficient and useless tasks that we
do during the day is to strategically create and implement high performance habits into our lives
i made a video on six high performance habits you can implement that should significantly increase
your productivity and output you can click on the video on the screen alternatively i made a video
on how i went from d grades to a grades both videos are really important from the feedback
in the comments you guys love them so whichever video you choose to watch i'll see you over there