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Hey, this is Leo for actualised.org. And in this video, I'm going to show you how to study extremely effectively I want to turn you into a studying machine, I want to make you such an effective study or that studying is going to be a skill that you have you possess, it's going to be a strength of yours that you're gonna feel proud of. And that's going to carry you through your entire life, not just your schooling days and your college days. Studying is very near and dear to my heart. Because this is a skill that's actually developed and acquired. And I didn't always have this skill, I wasn't always an effective study, or I struggled through much of elementary school and middle school, I was a pretty below average. And even after I started below average of study, or then I improved, I became kind of average. And then what happened is that when I got into the first year and a half of high school, something clicked in me, which made me take studying very seriously. And then the last three years of high school, I became just like an ACE study, or just amazing one of the top in the school. And then also, when I went to college, because I was such a good study in high school, that translated into making college really easy for me, and I was also one of the top students in college. So I want to tell you a little bit about this, because I feel like this is one of my top strengths that I developed. And I know how it can be developed. So it's not just something that comes naturally to you. So let me show you how to develop amazing study skills. And it's not just going to be about technique, but also about some very important mindsets, you're going to want to know. So the first thing you got to really understand about studying is that studying is a skill. And it's something that's acquired and developed through practice. It's not something you're born with, this is the worst mindset you could have is to believe that, oh, well, you know, I'm just not as smart as all the other kids, I don't get it as fast as them. I'm not as good of a study or I'm not as quick as a reader. I'm not really good at math, I'm not good at science. This is all complete horseshit. Alright, complete, utter nonsense. This is not the kind of mindset that you want when you're approaching studying. Instead, what I want you to approach starting with is a growth mindset. That was a fixed mindset. Here's what the growth mindset is the growth mindset, it says that, basically, you're just as good as anybody else, inherently. And what it all boils down to is just practice, practice, practice, repetition, repetition, repetition, lots of hard work, lots of hard work. And eventually you get those amazing studying skills, and you become the best in the class, or you really understand a topic so deeply, just from that one mindset, just apply it over and over and over again. So it's really important not to limit yourself into this fixed mindset, thinking that somehow you're learning disabled, you got something wrong with you. There may be learning disabled people that are very, that's a very small percentage, don't assume that you are that even if you've been told that you're learning disabled, that doesn't necessarily mean anything. Because usually what they do is they try to find that stuff out through tests. And when I was actually in ninth grade, when I entered the ninth grade, because I didn't do too well on my reading test. In my eighth grade, when they put me in high school in ninth grade, they put me into a remedial reading class. So I was sitting with all the dumb kids in class reading books, and I felt like I was a dumb kid too, because they put me in that class. So don't let that let that kind of stuff limit you. Schools are notoriously like stupid and bureaucratic, filled with red tape. So just because someone puts you in some position, or in some class, or gives you some label doesn't mean anything about your learning abilities, you can learn. And we're going to, we're going to show you how to do that right here. So the first thing you got to realize is that it's not about the grades, you got to stop focusing on the grades, the grades are not important. And in fact, this opens up the larger topic of intrinsic versus extrinsic motivation. A lot of kids, a lot of young people, young adults in college or whatever, basically through that phase from high school, and college between those two, between those two stages of your life. A lot of times you get hooked on this kind of need to impress others with your grades, or to do well because your parents want you to do well. Or to do well because you're competing against other kids in your class, or because there's a certain trophy that you want, or because you want to go to some amazing Ivy League school. And so there's this real damaging social conditioning going on, which is pressuring you to follow and get amazing grades, and to play that whole rat race. And look, I was in that rat race. I was really motivated by competing with others and getting really good grades and I was always inspired had to see that list of all the top students in the school or in the class and see that I was in the top that always inspired me. But that's not ultimately what fueled me as a student. What fueled me as a student is an intrinsic drive. Intrinsic motivation. Intrinsic means that it's coming from inside you, you naturally authentically want it. Rather than chasing after some sort of approval or validation from your principal, from your professor or from your parents. That is total nonsense, you cannot be effective students, if you are going off with extrinsic motivation. So the solution here is that any extrinsic motivations you have, what you got to do is you got to literally just put them off to the side and your brain off to the side, stop thinking about them, stop caring about them, stop putting any value into that kind of stuff, you don't need it, it doesn't matter what your grades are. What's important is, why are you trying to become a great student, you want to become a great student, you want to learn how to study, because this is a critical life skill. This is something that literally is going to set up your entire life. And this will mean the difference between being happy and being miserable. This will mean the difference between being rich and being poor. This will be the difference between being neurotic and being calm, and even keeled in your life. This will be the difference between having an amazing marriage and amazing relationship and horrible marriage and horrible relationship. This will be the difference between having an amazing successful business and a disastrous business that goes into bankruptcy. So literally every area of your life that you want to have success in or you want to be happy in will require study, it will require it. Personal Development is all about studying how you work how your psychology works. This is not something that you just get spontaneously through osmosis, this is something that has to be you have to sit down, open lots of books, study lots of stuff, take lots of notes. So this is proper studying. To me, what's exciting about studying is not that I'm gonna get some grades, or I'm gonna say that, Oh, I know, some trivial facts, like I know, when the war of 1812 started and why it started. And I know all the causes of this, and I know how the physics of that works. That's not important at all. To me, it's all about understanding life. Life is so fascinating, I want to understand it. To me, this is one of the most important missions that I have as a human being living here. Like as a life form. This goes really deep for me as a life form. This is the most important thing that I'm doing, through my short time on this earth in this universe is that I'm learning how the universe works. I'm observing it with my senses, and then I'm dissecting it and analyzing with my mind, that's basically the foundation of all study. This is how every effective study or every effective scientist mathematician approaches this problem, right? They don't just sit down to study stuff. They're genuinely curious and interested and fascinated by the mysteries of the universe, because this is a mysterious and amazing thing. And this brings us to the key mindset number one, that you really need to become an effective student, which is to get in touch with the fact that life is deeply fascinating. I don't care what you're studying, you could be studying how to cook, you could be studying physics, or math, or history, or psychology or personal development, or how to go skydiving, or how to do an underwater dive, or how to make a dress, how to do makeup, whatever your area of interest in, that's cool. It doesn't matter. There's no judgement here. All of this is just life. This is the universe and you're learning how this stuff works. And there's a lot to be learned about every single one of these topics. And don't think that you're somehow above learning about these things. You're not at all, every one of these things deserves lots of study. And what you'll find the more you learn, and you look into each one of these topics, you'll discover that there's Wow, there's so much amazing stuff. There's so much depth in every little nook and cranny of life. There's so much depth, you can literally spend a lifetime at this point, studying the most minut the most esoteric, the most technical things, if you want. You can also spend an entire lifetime piecing everything together. If you want to go broader sort of deep, you can spend whole lifetime piecing all the all the little pieces together, which is personally one of my fascinations and missions in life is to piece together the big picture. So that's what really fuels me. I'm not so much about the trivia the technicalities of life. But you know, some people do like the technicalities, so you got to decide which one of those people you are. You got to get really in touch with what you find deeply fascinating about life. It's not about cracking open a book and acing a test. This is such a human, like social construct is so stupid, this whole idea of test taking and stuff and I mean it has value. But it's so limited. You can't be fueled by that. You got to like put all that aside. That's the bullshit of studying that's like the politics of study. The politics are nonsense. What you got to look at is you got to look at like, what's the Thought Foundation, like the fundamental core of it. And that is like, wow, I want to really understand life. I want understand this thing here. It's so fascinating. Or this thing, the way it works is so cool. Like, how can it work this way? How does technology work? How does science work? how humans behave in all these irrational and weird ways? How can we have geniuses? And we also have disastrous people through history? How does history work? How to wars? What kind of politics work has? How do economies work? How does money work? There's so much to study, I want you to really get in touch with first of all the fact that you are interested in all of it. And that you could be interested in any one of these topics, genuinely. But this is something you have to kind of like pause and admit to yourself, you have to say to yourself, Okay, wait a minute. What's really going on here? Sure, maybe there's a subject that I do like a little bit more than another subject, like maybe math, I don't really like math, but like, let's say history, I really, I'm really fascinated by people in history. That's cool. You can have those preferences, but also don't be so closed minded to say, well, you know what, I'm just bad at math, I just hate math. If you say that, what I want you to do is actually I want you to ask yourself, pause and ask yourself, Wait a minute, why do I hate this thing called math isn't a part of reality? Isn't it fascinating that, that we can use mental concepts and numbers and these numbers seem to have certain patterns to them, they work in certain very logical and interesting ways. And we can use this math, to do science, we can use this map to do advanced technology, isn't that fascinating to you, it shouldn't be fascinates you, no matter who you are. And even if it's not your like, forte, and your most passionate thing, this is important, because in school, you're gonna have a diversity of subjects, some of these subjects will be mandatory, you're not always gonna be able to pick. But also, as you advance through school, you're gonna get more options to pick. So one of the secrets to school is, of course, try to pick the stuff that you are really fascinated about. So as much control as you do have tried to exercise that and pointed in a direction to stuff that really fascinates you and lights you up. And if there's stuff that you're not fascinated about, what you have to do, is you have to just kind of trick yourself in your brain and say, Oh, well, what could I find fascinating about this? What could be interesting about this? Why is this important? Maybe I haven't opened my mind to the subject yet. If you do that, you'll find that actually, your mind can open up and you can find satisfaction in learning almost about anything. It's kind of cool. What I want you to do right now is I want you to pause this video. And I want you to write down a list of 20 areas of life that you're deeply fascinated by and that you want to research and you want to learn more about. You're fascinated about how it works. You're fascinated about the questions that might be coming up in that field of study. So what is that for you? And it can literally be anything. So right now pause the video and come up with those. It could be math, science history, or if you prefer, it could be stuff like, well, you know, I'm really passionate about surfing, I want to learn how surfing works, or I'm really fast and about tennis, let me learn about how tennis works. Or I'm really fascinated about how technology works. Maybe I want to learn about how they programmed computers, or how they make websites, or how they construct factories, or how they make cell phones. There's literally so much stuff. So pause right now and come up with a list. Okay, you've done that. I hope you did. So that's gonna be a good starter for you. That right there is all the stuff that you really want to be focusing your attention on. And I will focus a lot of my discretionary time I'm actually studying the stuff that I find fascinating, outside of the stuff that I just find fascinating for school. So that's going to serve you well. The next key mindset that I want to share with you is really the secret to all learning and the secret to all study. It's so, so simple. You want to know the secret. It's really this learning equals repetition. It's just repetition. That's all learning is. People think that well, oh, I'm not as smart as this guy. I'm not as smart as that guy. There's little smarts that are actually required for learning. Learning is really dumb. Learning is just repetition. Brute force repetition. Again, and again and again and again. And again. If you repeat something enough times, your brain is gonna learn it no matter what even if you're the worst student. This was the key thing that I discovered. Early in 10th grade, I discovered this right when my results just totally skyrocketed with my grades and my studying habits and everything. Because I discovered really this one secret to all of learning. It's just repetition. I literally discovered that my brain can learn anything. I can memorize anything, any quantity of things, any complexity of things I could memorize just through study. And now, study is not something that you just do. Who to memorize stuff. So it's not about memorization. To me, I don't really care about memorizing things, that's not important. But what is important is, first of all, you are testing a lot of memorization skills in school. So that's just part of the school system, as imperfect as it is. So that will help you with getting amazing grades. But also, when you do repeat stuff over and over and over again, what happens is that yes, you memorize stuff. But also you get these deeper interconnections, your mind starts connecting the dots, and it does all this stuff, mostly unconsciously, you're not consciously sitting down coming up with really, like crafty clever techniques and ideas, what's happening is that you're just immersing yourself in the field of study, and you're repeating things again, and again, and again, and again and again. And your mind just can't help making those interconnections for you. And that process is actually really enjoyable. So this video, it's about making you a powerful student, but it's also about making you enjoy the activity of study, you have to enjoy it, if you don't enjoy it, you're not going to be a good student. And that's the most important thing that I did in my own, in my own education is that I really convinced myself to enjoy a lot of the studying that I did, I was very intrinsically motivated. And so that just worked out really well for me. And then I took this principle of repetition. And when I saw that, oh, man, I can literally program anything, I want it to my mind. It's just so dumb. It's so simple, the way that it works, there's nothing fancy behind it, there's no magic behind it, then I'm like, Oh, damn, I have the tool, I have all the tools, I need to learn whatever I want. And at that point, it just becomes a matter of discipline and practice, discipline and practice, discipline and practice. So at this point, what I want to do is I want to give you the actual study procedure that I used through most of high school and most of college to achieve some amazing results, it's really quite simple. But I want to give you all the steps that I went through. So these are like the tips of my studying procedure. So number one is that you want to create a quiet place free of distractions where you can study effectively. For me, this was my bedroom, my bedroom had a lock on it, I could close it, I could lock everyone out, I could stare for hours and just study you need a study room. Try to make like literally a little enclosure somewhere where you can go off hibernate and study so that nobody is bothering you. And if you want, you can close the door, shut the windows, turn off the TV, no distractions, total silence, you want to have as much control over that space as possible, and you want to organize it well. So that's the first thing. The second thing is you have to schedule your time. Don't just stuff studying in two cracks in your schedule, your schedule should be built around studying. If you're in high school, and you're in college, think about it this way. You're not working. Maybe some of you're working. But I'm assuming that for the average student who's got a pretty decent family, then he's not working or she's not working during this time. So in this case, you really have a cool thing happening. Basically, your full time job in life right now, from high school to college is to just study and absorb and learn as much about life as you can, there's actually a really cool phase in your life. Don't dread this phase, it's actually the coolest phase. Because most of your life is going to be spent working, you're going to be working for 30 To 40 to 50 years of your life, you only get 15 or 20 years of study. So use that right now. And high school and college. That's four and four years. So that's only eight years right there. That's not a lot it pass passes really fast. And actually, when you get out of college, if you're an effective student and you love learning, you're going to miss it, which is what happened to me. So anyways, the idea here is to schedule your time. What does this mean? This means have an exact set time during the day when you start to study for me, I remember it was about 6pm I would always say to myself, Okay, 6pm I get back from school, I rest a little bit and then at 6pm That's my study time it starts, how long does it go? Well, that depends on how much assignment and homework I have. But it would go for at least an hour or two. And sometimes we'd go for four or five or six hours. And it was started six, and you'd usually end like around nine or 10 or or after that. And it would vary. But I think what's really important is to have that starting time six, no matter what, six, sit down and study, open the books, sit down study. It doesn't have to be six for you just come up with your own time. And you're doing this every single day. And then I will take one day off for the weekend. So the way it would work is Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, I would study actually Friday, I wouldn't study Friday would be cut Friday night would be my kind of night off. And then Saturday I wouldn't study either. So that's actually two days and then Sunday I would because Sunday usually you have homework for the for the upcoming Monday. So that was my schedule. What's important about this is that it leads us to the next point, which is you have to get comfortable and you have to slow yourself down out in order to study effectively, you can't rush the studying process. And one of the secrets that I use is simply brute force, right? A lot of the issues as a student that I dealt with the things that I couldn't understand, I just brute force them through repetition. And this repetition can take time. Also, you know, you have to be patient with yourself, sometimes you're not gonna understand the problem right off the bat. So you just kind of repeat it, repeat it, mull it over, mull it over. And that means sometimes it takes you longer. So instead of finishing a quick little math assignment in an hour, it might take you three hours. But that's worth it. If you calm yourself down, get comfortable, slow yourself down, kind of open yourself to absorbing this information. Right. This is where the love that comes in, if you don't love it, and what you're doing is you're just kind of rushed studying through stuff just to learn it, like cramming for an exam. That's just horrible. That's horrible. Because all you're trying to do is you're jumping, you're like a dog jumping through hoops. That's basically what you are when you're doing that. Because you're saying yourself, well, I got to pass this exam in order to get into college to get good grades. So my parents like me, that's just hoops like a dog you're jumping through. Don't do that. Instead, what you think about is like this. This subject matter is really fascinating. Let me study more. Let me learn more. I want to know how math interconnects with with history. And I want to know how to history and connects with science. And I want to know how this In this connection, and I want to know more depth about this thing here. That's how you got to think. So that's the getting curious. Part Two, you got to get really curious when you actually sit down at 6pm to study and you open that book up. Instead of thinking, Okay, how do I get this done faster, so that I can go watch some TV or play some video games? No, you sit down and you say, Oh, this is a fascinating thing here that I'm studying about life. This is so much more rewarding, and has so much more value than watching TV or playing a video game. Look, I watched a lot of TV during my school years, and I want to play a lot of video games during my school years. So I know how that goes. I mean, those things can be exciting in the short term. But there's so much value and richness in the studying. You got to connect yourself to that, right? It's not like adults are just telling you to study for study sake, that's a stupid reason. I can connect inside to your own original motivations. As you read this book, or however you're studying, you have to read for understanding an excellence, rather than trivial memorization of facts. The key is understanding. So when you're doing a math problem, for example, you have to actually get insights into how the math works. Which is a very different thing than just turning out answers. It's very easy in your mind just to become a calculating machine and just calculate stuff, calculate, Calculate, calculate. Or if you're learning history, all you're doing is you're memorizing dates and numbers and names. Or if you're learning science, or physics or something, you're just memorizing formulas, and you're understanding how the formulas work, where they came from, why it is that they are the way they are. It's a really huge thing. This is where a lot of people become really good at actually passing exams, but then they don't understand anything about the subject matter, which is just a disgusting way. And a travesty of study. Studying is about understanding stuff, right? You have to really know how this stuff works, rather than just memorizing or knowing some little trick technique or some little shortcut to get the right answer. So don't fall into that trap. I know I fell into that trap a lot, especially with mathematics, that was my weakest subject. And that's because I didn't take this understanding approach to it, that I needed to, you need to also like value excellence in the way that you study. Right? You should have this standard that you set for yourself that, for me, it's important to actually accurately understand how reality works. I'm not happy with a half assed understanding of mathematics. And I'm not happy with a half assed understanding of history or science. Like I want to have deep probing insights into these topics. Because that's interesting to me. And also accuracy is important to me. I don't want to be a person who half understands reality, or understands it in all these misconceived ways. I want to really understand reality, I want to know the truth of things. This is a really important tenants and principle of, of study. Taking notes, taking notes is very important. So if you're in class, become a great note taker. If you're reading stuff, learn to take notes, develop a habit of taking notes, start to enjoy taking notes, and also keep a repository of all your notes. So when I was in school, it was all manual and paper, there was no electronic note taking at that time. I don't know how it is nowadays, probably a lot more iPads and stuff. But I would literally have buckets like huge buckets and plastic file cabinets full of files full of paper all marked up. So this was really important to me actually took a little pride in that having that because that stack just grew bigger and bigger and bigger, like these huge heavy boxes, of all the stuff that I would learn every single year and I would cumulated you don't need to be a packrat about it. But I think that it's important that you value the process of recording your insights, recording your understandings, not just for the sake of school officials or grades, but just actually for yourself, that's really important. That's going to the core, again, really understanding the stuff you're studying. The other really important technique that I discovered is this idea of self testing. This is really important if you want to ace tests. What this really is, is going back to that idea of repetition, repetition, repetition. So if you're reading a chapter, let's say, I can remember pretty vividly myself sitting down and reading some chapter about molecular biology in my big biology book. Well, if I read that whole chapter, usually, at the end of the chapter, they'll have questions, still have little tests that the book gives you. Or maybe there's a test that your teacher gave you, like as a homework homework assignment. So you've got questions there? Well, what you got to do is you got to like, go through the material you've studied, and then just test yourself. And as you're testing yourself, the key is that you have to check if your answer is correct. So if your answer is not correct, you have to go back and find the right answer. Now, this is a process that takes time and it slows you down. This is why I feel most people don't do this. Most students, they want to get done with the assignment so quickly, that they don't actually go and bother to look up the right answer. And then after you come up with the right answer, what you got to do is you got to drill into your mind, but ask yourself the question again, and then allow your mind to do a recall. So this is really critical for memory. And all learning happens when what you do is you do a successful recall, this is very important. This idea right here will literally make or break your whole studying career and all your tests. Recall. Right? What do I mean by recall, you have to understand how this actually works in your mind. So if you're sitting there, and you're just reading stuff, or somebody tells you some facts, that's good. But don't assume that, that means you've memorized it, for you to actually commit it to memory, you have to recall it successfully. So if someone tells you a fact about, let's say, when some war started 500 years ago, and they tell you the exact date, you hear it, but you don't recall it, usually, what you have to do is you have to force the recall in your own mind. So when did such a warm start? It started in 1555, or something like that, you recall it? And if you can't recall it, if you're struggling, and you're like, Well, I just don't remember what you gotta do. You gotta go back and look up that number. When you look up the number you see Oh, 5055. Okay, cool. That's still not good enough. Now you have to recall it again. So what you got to do is you got to ask yourself that same question again. And then try to recall it and see, are you able to, if you're not able to you go back and look at that number again. And then you ask the question again, and you see if you can recall it again. And only when you are successfully able to recall it have you actually learned it. And what I usually do is I will loop through a couple of times like that, until I'm able to recall successfully. And then even after I recall, successfully, usually the first or two recalls are a bit of a struggle. They're not like quick and smooth and silky. So what I do is I'll ask myself the question again a couple of times, and then by like the fifth or 10th time. By that point, I'm able to recall it like really, really fast, because I've trained my brain literally through the recalls. So your brain gets built and trained through this recalling process. That's very important, if what you're trying to do is memorize stuff. And memorization is, is going to be just a fact of life for you as a student. So remember that one. The other thing you got to understand about studying is that if you're not a good student, now, you're not just going to go and become a great student tomorrow by watching this video, it's gonna take time for you to build momentum, building momentum, you have to do it over the course of the day as you're studying. But then also over the course of weeks and months really, it took me about, I would say six months to really build up a lot of momentum when I was transitioning from ninth grade to 10th grade, to become a really much more powerful student. And then even after that it took a year or two more, and I really hit my stride in school when I was in 12th grade. By the time I got to 12th grade, I had built up like two and a half years of momentum. From the other grades. I was really studying very hard. And I developed a lot of good habits. And at this point I integrated all the stuff we talked about into my mind. So it became so easy that it was just like coasting through coasting through really easy to study at that point. Because I built up that momentum. I built up these positive habits, this process of building up the habits. It's not an easy process. It's going to be a little bit painful. It's going to require some discipline from you. Right? But this is going to be an important skill that you're learning because you're gonna be able to apply this discipline, and these habits that you learn now, in high school and in college, you're gonna apply that to the rest of your life. To me, the whole point of high school and college studying, is just to set the foundation. And then to carry that, that studying through into the rest of your life. And remember why you're doing all this. So as you're sitting down, and you know, you're in your comfortable place, you're comfortable, you're slowing yourself down, you're open, you're curious, you're studying something, you've got something open, you're really fascinated by it. So that's the basic process, right? Pricing procedure. And now remember why you're doing this in the long run. In the long run, you're doing this because you really care about understanding reality. Also, because of all the cool things that this will do for you, this will allow you to have an amazing business and amazing relationship, allow you have an amazing career. This will allow you to basically design the kind of life that you want, any kind of life that you want. And it's also going to fascinate you, as a human being, because one of the things you're going to learn as you grow up is that wow, learning about how life works, compared to just grinding it out at a nine to five job, or compared to, to partying or compared to watching movies or the planet compared to playing video games. Like learning how reality works. That's one of the higher consciousness values of life. It's one of the greatest fulfillment and joys that you can find in life. It's certainly nothing as exciting as playing a video game. Like playing a video game is very exciting in the moment. But studying it's kind of this like longer term, more kind of like smooth and mellow sort of excitement. It's a really cool thing. And I want you to develop a love for that, as you're going through your school and college days. So remember that this is something that you're building is something that you're cultivating, you don't have a vision for why you're studying so hard. Because you're going to be working really hard when you study. Some nights, you're gonna be working really hard getting really exhausted, you have to keep the ultimate vision in mind of why you're doing all this stuff. Never lose sight of that that's really important. So that's my basic procedure. I think I've covered a lot of stuff already here. I'm just going to cover a couple of last remaining points. So one point that needs to be covered is that if you're studying really hard, you have to rest properly, you have to sleep properly. Throughout high school and college, I never once pulled an all nighter, this all nighter thing. This is ridiculous to me. You don't need any all nighters, just schedule your time properly. And you don't need any all nighters. Sleep, well rest well, when you're learning stuff, and your brain is churning all the time, you're gonna literally be feeling like your brain rewiring itself, neurons are going to be growing in your brain, you're gonna feel this is a really cool, exciting feeling. But it also is exhausting to you. And so what that means is you need to be able to take naps, you need to be able to get your full eight or 10 hours of sleep. I remember on weekends, I would sleep for like 12 hours. Because I was so exhausted from this week of studying on the weekend, I really give myself time to sleep well. So that was important. And then during the during the weekdays, I was still take naps, I would take one or two hour naps almost every single day because I was studying so much it would exhaust my whole brain. So make sure that you account for that. No cramming, don't do this cramming thing, just cramming is just ridiculous and stupid. Cramming is all about jumping through hoops for somebody else. Remember that it's not about you. When you're cramming for something, I want you to pause, ask yourself, Wait a minute, what the hell is going on here? Why am I doing this, I'm like a slave jumping through hoops. I'm like a dog, I don't want to be that. And then read ground yourself, bring yourself back to the core principle of why you want to be studying. When you're actually enjoying studying, and you like it and you're fascinated by by topics that we've been talking about, then you know what cramming because cramming is painful, it's stressful, you're not calm, you're not relaxed, not comfortable. Instead, what you want to do is you want to actually give yourself more time to study, you want to slow the whole process down, draw it all out, extend it out, so that you're enjoying it right physically, you have to enjoy it in your body if enjoyed in your brain, cramming isn't enjoyable. And finally, if you are struggling with just buckling down and putting these positive habits into place, getting really disciplined about your study, then I really want you to take a look at the fact the pain of avoiding study is much worse than the study itself. There's nothing really painful about studying, studying is enjoyable, picking up a book sitting on a couch and reading it or snuggling in your bed like when you're studying. What's cool is that you can set up the environment however you want. So you can literally be sitting there you can have a nice coffee or a drink or a soda next to you. You can have some nice food you can have some nice music playing. Like you can really set up a really comfortable learning environment. And then they're sitting reading a book or jotting some notes or listen watching a video that you've been told to watch or do some some math problems. If you slow yourself down, you just get conscious about the fact that oh, this is actually a, like a cool, comfortable environment scenario that I'm sitting in, it's actually quite enjoyable. My brain is learning new stuff that's pretty enjoyable. Don't fall into this trap of just resisting studying, just because people are telling you to study. This is one problem is that because everyone's telling you to study all the time, your parents, your teachers, grades, and everything's so important that you're getting stressed out about it, when in fact, it's a very relaxing activity. This is why it's very important to transition away from extrinsic motivation, and get connected to why you want to study so much. All right, those are my tips for how to be a really effective study, er, this stuff served me really well. Throughout my days, I graduated with a 4.0 GPA in high school, and then college, it was like 3.9, or something around that. So it's pretty damn high. Anyways, if you adopt all these principles, all these mindsets and some of these techniques, you're going to be able to get a 4.0 GPA, and maybe even beyond. And the most important thing is that you'll be able to translate all this amazing wisdom that you learned in school, into your adult life, which is where actualized org comes in. And I'll tell you about that later in my other videos. So anyways, go ahead and post your comments down below. Click the like, like button for me right now to like this video. And, of course, share the video posted on Facebook, share it with friend. And finally come and sign up to my newsletter here at actualize that org gets a free newsletter, I release new videos about how to self actualize how to grow yourself, how to learn about yourself, so that you're not just learning about topics like physics and math, and history. These are cool topics. 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