over the last few months i've been thinking a lot about efficiency how can i live my life how can i
go through my 24 hours as efficiently as possible and effectively do two things number one remove
all the unproductive things out of my life so removing everything that is wasting my time
and moving me further away from my overall goal and number two all the tasks that i do carry out
that are worthwhile and do help me towards my overall goal how can i carry out those
tasks in a more efficient way so this video is going to go through all the time saving hacks
and productivity hacks that i implement into my life to make the most out of my
24 hours and just before i start the transform your grades in 30 days course is now live so if
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end of the video i do talk about hustle culture and burning out and it's so so important you keep
your health in check i talk more about this idea of hustle culture at the end of the video so do
stick around until the end use time-saving apps i've almost entirely stopped reading books almost
to read a non-fiction book it takes about eight hours to read but realistically in each book
even a really good book there's usually only three or four main key points in the whole book
and i mean things that you remember and stick with you even weeks or months after reading it
so what if there was an app that consolidated the non-fiction books into short summaries and that
basically spoon-fed you all the main key points from the book in just say 10 or 15 minutes so
essentially you've gone from learning something that would normally have taken you eight hours
that will now take you 15 minutes well now there is an app that does just that blinkist
is an app that allows you to understand the key insights from the world's best non-fiction books
in just 15 minutes or less the book summary can be read to you in the form of an audio book
or you can read it like a traditional book so i've been using blinkist for maybe three or four maybe
five months now and i use it almost every single day when i shower it takes me about 15 minutes and
so i have a blinkist audiobook playing on my phone speakers in the background and there's a link
in the description if you want to check it out because the app is perfect for essentially turning
dead time so time such as showering or eating into productive time where you're learning and growing
audiobooks when commuting speaking of turning dead time into productive time commuting is one
of the longest periods of time where you're not actually doing anything productive whether it's
commuting to school or commuting to university or commuting to work most of us listen to music or
browse social media on our phones or maybe we're driving or staying blankly out of the window on
a train and when i had to commute to university it would take me about 40 minutes of driving so
40 minutes of driving to university in the morning and 40 minutes of driving home in the afternoon
so that's one hour 20 minutes of commuting every single day so i'd fill this time with audiobooks
or podcasts and i was studying economics and finance university so it would quite often be
an audio book or podcast on the topic of economics that way i was still learning things for my course
even when i was commuting and that's one hour 20 minutes of extra learning a day that's not
an insignificant amount of time if i carry that out over five days a week over a month that's
24 hours a month extra of learning and the vast majority of people would be listening to music
or like i said be scrolling through their social media when they commute so if you're listening to
audiobooks or podcasts and you're learning as you commute you're essentially getting that little bit
more knowledgeable every time you commute whereas most people they're staying the same level because
they're not mixing their commuting with anything productive set your goals the night before
so this is something that i've only just started doing relatively recently maybe the last three
or four weeks but i'm realizing how powerful and how effective it is even though it's so basic and
takes like not even five minutes each night so on a night time i'd write down three or four things
that i need to do the next day i wouldn't write everything i need to do but just the main tasks
the most important tasks so for example on my phone right now the tasks for tomorrow are to
film two videos make two thumbnails make the b-roll write an email and test the landing page on
mobile version so that's five things that i need to do tomorrow above everything else and i need
to make those five things a priority and with this system as soon as you wake up in the morning you
know exactly what you need to do you don't need to waste time thinking about it and as an added bonus
it's satisfying to be able to check off each task as you complete them throughout the day
read the news every single morning for at least i would say six or seven maybe eight years the
first thing i would do after my lab goes off in the morning is open the bbc news app on my phone
and be updated with what's going on around the world now this is slightly controversial
there's a lot of negativity and adversity in the news and i'm a bit of an advocate
of removing as much negativity and as much cynicism and adversity out of your life as you can
but the trade-off in reading the news is just for 10 minutes in the morning is that it keeps
you up to date with current affairs you keep up with what's going on around the world and really
it gives you a more perspective in that there's more going on around the world than what you're
seeing in your own life and it was particularly beneficial for me as someone who studied for an
economics degree because it provides news about a country's economic situations the trade wars
going on around the world and a lot of the theory that i was learning at university i could apply
them in real life and almost see things play out with real countries and real economies
be mindful of hustle culture i've been thinking about this more and more recently
this idea of hustle culture where essentially we devote as much of the day as possible to working
and we live that life every single day where there's no time out you're always working whether
it's at university or at home or at library or at a coffee shop wherever you are you're working
and i'll be honest with you i have hustle culture completely ingrained into my everyday life i can
work 15 hour days relatively easily and honestly i see that as a good thing for me personally for me
it's definitely not for everyone and i'll explain why a bit later i love my work i love what i do i
love the positive impact that i'm having at scale and i wouldn't have it any other way i get as
much enjoyment from working as i do from hanging out with friends or going to a bar for a drink
however there are two important things i have to keep in mind number one is that i have to be
really mindful not to burn out so when it's seven or eight at night and i still have a lot to do
but i'm feeling exhausted i'm feeling tired i have to make a conscious decision to stop what
i'm doing and just chill out it's absolutely imperative to know when to rest and when to
call it a night with work and just relax for the rest of the night because in the long
term it will do you a lot of good my mental and physical health is prioritized above everything
else and so should yours be and number two the hustle culture is not for everyone maybe you
prioritize other things over productivity like having a more balanced lifestyle and
socializing a bit more and exercising a bit more and just relaxing a bit more
and sometimes that's the right way to go you only live once you're only young one so please
make sure that you have at least some kind of social life human beings are sociable creatures
after all we've evolved over millions of years to be that way so try not to be so productive
that you're ignoring other elements of your life that you might regret as you get older
but at the time that you're doing what i would call pointless things like browsing instagram
facebook watching cat videos on youtube if you eliminate all of those distractions you'll realize
that you have so much more free time during the day and then you should fill that time with tasks
that are going to bring you closer to your main goals and if you're still struggling to do that
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