How to STUDY when you DON’T FEEL LIKE IT! - TRY THIS METHOD!

0:00you are in a slump there's that assignment you need to complete there's that exam that you need to study for and you just don't feel like it and now there's this immense sense of overwhelming emotions right because you know that you're supposed to be completing something but you feel guilty for not doing so this is a universal student experience you're certainly not alone I can attest a feeling like this all the time but I just recently graduated as a Deans lless biomedical engineering student with both my bachelors and Masters simultaneously which is really really awesome awesome experience that I've just had so I can certainly test that happened a lot but

0:34what do I always say when we think about emotions and trying to base everything that we do on inspiration or motivation it is not a good idea instead you need to rely on something more consistent like a system something that you know is a series of steps that will bring about the results that you're looking for and that's what we're going to be talking about today but before I dive into all of that I I want to switch your perspective a little bit here we know that the only thing that we can guarantee as human beings that we will have off days we will have days that are

1:03really really low motivation and so if you know that every one of your peers are going to experience that of course to different extents and different situations but you know that they're also going to have moments where they're in their own head and thinking I don't want to pursue this don't you think that perhaps this is a good opportunity for yourself to create some separation from your peers right this is your opportunity to stand out what do I mean by this well I don't come from money I don't come from resources I certainly do do not my parents never graduated from college we always struggled financially

1:33so I'm always looking at it from the standpoint I'm trying to catch up and then I need to figure out ways to make separation well guess what it's in these moments that we can do that and that's exciting and so I want you to be somebody that runs towards these types of struggles and I know that sounds crazy but I'm the embodiment of somebody that does I know that I'm going to have low motivation days some days I feel really great and that's an easy day to complete but on the days that I don't feel like it I also know my competition out there are feeling the exact same can

1:59I dig a little bit deeper can I stick in that emotion for a little bit longer and still complete what I need to complete well hopefully this system allows you to do the same my name is Jun Yu if you're new to the channel welcome if you're returning welcome back I really feel that this video will be something easy to resonate with no matter who you are no matter what age you are no matter what part of schooling you are whether you're even in your career already because let's face it these days come but now I want to hopefully encourage you to not fear these days I want you to

2:30again run towards them and still have a lot of success so sit back relax and enjoy the video if you have any questions at all leave them in the comments below I'm more than happy respond give this video a thumbs up and of course subscribe number one remember your why and I want you to consider these three really important questions who are you trying to help what type of lifestyle or career do you want and how can this challenge evolve you as a person I want to quickly answer each of them so who am I trying to help when I was studying biomedical engineering and there was a lot of cardiovascular

3:01engineering assignments I really didn't want to do how was I still able to complete them well I thought about this I thought about who was I trying to help I knew that a career in biomedical engineering or even in my own business that if I was successful in it I would have the financial means to provide for my family so those were the individuals that I was trying to help in terms of what type of lifestyle and career I wanted I knew that if I was successful in either one of those Endeavors or perhaps both of them I would have a lot of really cool opportunities in terms of

3:29fin cial Freedom along with time freedom and having an opportunity to do the things that really resonate with me so I wanted to be able to help people and then knowing that the lifestyle and career that I also would hopefully be able to have one day was a part of even that cardiovascular engineering assignment yes it's not immediate but it's that bigger why that connects that type of assignments to a greater purpose and then the third one how can this challenge evolve you as person this is basically everything that we talk about in our mentorship program as the Foundation of what we aim to do so yes

4:02in our mentorship program we talk about how to build a network we talk about building perspective careers we talk about personal braing we talk about making money we talk about being more productive but none of that stuff actually will work with Longevity if you don't base your foundation off of this type of perspective every challenge in front of you can evolve you as a human being in your mind your body and your spirit and those are our first three pillars and our fourth pillar is honest accountability so can we ensure that in moments like this in really really difficult moments that many people tend to run away from can we actually sit in

4:35that struggle for a little bit longer and can we reach the depths of our pillars reminding ourselves that our struggle is meant for something that there's greater purpose that stems from it I truly believe that type of perspective flip is tremendously powerful and so across those two questions hopefully you have a better understanding that you need a why right everyone needs a why and if you're currently sitting there thinking to yourself I have no idea a why I'm doing any of this stuff well first hopefully you've taken now the first step of gaining an awareness that a purpose is necessary you definitely don't want to go your whole life never thinking about

5:10that because if you don't Society will hand you your purpose it will distract you with the millions of imputs all around us on a daily basis it will make you go go go go go until one day you wake up from The Nightmare realizing man you've been pursuing things that weren't necessarily lying to you and you definitely want to question that you definitely want to challenge yourself to understand why am I doing this why am I a student but that doesn't mean that your why has to be connected to something comfortable or easy right that assignment is hard that exam is going to be hard and studying for that is really

5:45hard in the current moment and so you want to be somebody that faces those challenges head on having the perspective again that it can involve you as a person so that purpose is selected by you but having a better understanding that it's connected to something much de deeper than just that assignment what you have in front of you is not just what's in front of you it's something much deeper than that if you can have the perspective to and that's how I've been able to show up every single day and get both my bachelor and Masters in probably one of if not the hardest major out there in biom medical

6:14engineering it's how I've been able to start a seven figure business while still as a student from zero it's showing up for yourself even on the days that you don't feel like it because those are the days that count but if you can have a perspective on your why it's really really helpful and I know I'm being very exhaustive here and thorough and if you have't never had this conversation with yourself that's why I want to introduce you to the idea but once you have that type of purpose in mind this can be an immediate type of reset right when you're in that moment just to reflect to journal on your why

6:42can be tremendously powerful number two break down your goals currently you're looking at this assignment or currently you're looking at your task to study for this exam and it seems so overwhelming right and probably it's because we as human beings do a lot of overthinking if you're an overthinker like I am you can raise your hand at this moment but what happens is that when we overthink about a task at hand we actually create these artificial complexities complexities that aren't actually there right we just make them up cuz we're overthinking about it and that prevents us from ever starting and that's very very very dangerous right and so every time that

7:18you have a macro goal like even finishing an assignment or going ahead and studying for an exam you know perhaps that you need to spend 10 hours to do either one of those things right and that's extremely extremely daunting for yourself well maybe we can break this up and we can break this down into smaller micr so we can think of this in the time standpoint and think to ourselves you know what 10 hours is a lot to to do but I can do 25 minutes right and that's why the pomodora technique is probably your best friend here having an opportunity to break down that macro go into something much more

7:49manageable is incredible because you're doing two things for yourself you're one establishing confidence because you've actually completed about something that you've committed to long after the emotion in which you're or set that commitment in has subsided cuz right now you have low motivation but you still completed it cuz you said that you going do the 25-minute bount it's going to establish a level of confidence it's also going to establish positive momentum moving forward so the subsequent bouts the subsequent sessions are much easier to complete and so that's from the time standpoint but even itself when we're talking about the assignment or studying for the exam really trying to break it down but

8:21perhaps you want to logically chunk the information so it's a little bit more manageable for you to start after you complete one chunk then you can move on to the subsequent chunks and it's the same idea of establishing confidence and momentum so I always always always talk about this but you have to realize that anyone can set a macro goal anyone can have a variety of to-dos right anybody can do that and it's not hard to do it what's really hard and what stands people out and makes people exceptional and extraordinary and really productive are ones that can then look at that Todo prioritize them and then execute them

8:58right but that prior ation will happen when you can take that macro goal into a micro goal and then you can break those bits up and you realize you know what this is where I start this is where I'm going to prioritize and then it flows into each of the subsequent tasks or the subsequent steps or the subsequent parts to a single task and that's how you can be productive so if you're feeling overwhelmed right now that's probably one of your best steps to do so remember your why and start to break down your macro go into micro gos number three reduce the initial friction so we've

9:28already started this by allowing us to make it feel a bit less overwhelming but there are specific techniques that you can utilize to even further reduce the initial friction so the F minute roll and it's hilarious because everyone in our program uses it a lot of people use the 321 method and it's just a very very simple method that works right it's basically you telling yourself for 5 minutes you're going to commit to that piece of work you're going to commit to sitting down and then you'll decide whether or not to continue when you can reduce the initial friction from even 25 minutes to 5 minutes that's a huge

9:59tremendous step and it makes it just a lot easier for you to do but it goes beyond just the timing I tell people this all the time but I have a peak productivity window it's a 90 minute to a 3H hour bout that I will never never sacrifice I it's non-negotiable for me every morning I wake up and accomplish that Peak productivity window before I go to classes before I go to work and it it's leverag for my most demanding tasks right but I set myself up for Success so the night prior I will always do the things that that don't require as much cognitive effort that will make

10:31tremendous impact the next day during my Peak productivity window so I will look up the assignments that I have to get done I will open up the tabs on my laptop and I'll close my laptop and when I can wake up in the morning I open my laptop and it's all right there if I'm utilizing the Learning System books then I'll keep it up on my desk on the topic that I need to cover so this is to say when you can reduce the initial fraction whether it's the time and you want to further reduce that with the 5 minute rule or the 321 method or you want to

10:55physically allow yourself to make it easy to access your work all of those things have large impacts and the last thing trust me the last thing when you have low motivation is to find the assignment that you need to do um is to go and actually break down your work it's it's to go ahead and then pull out your books it's that's not what you want to be doing right especially when you've allotted that time to to be for your deep work session so make it easy for yourself reduce that initial friction and get the work done when you don't need the cognitive effort perhaps the

11:26night before or perhaps earlier in the day to set yourself up for Success number four reward small wins and I and I believe that this may be one of the most important ones right you want to create a positive feedback loop so that you can condition yourself to follow through in difficult times I know that seems kind of complex but it's not and it's really important here and I have to be very careful is that I'm not saying only reward the outcome I'm not saying to only reward the A's I'm not saying reward only when you can hit a huge milestone in your life no I mean reward

12:02the things that are actually in your control on a day-to-day basis and I think a perfect example of this is recently I hit 5 million on Instagram the same day that I graduated with my biomedical engineering degrees and in that moment people are like why aren't you doing more to celebrate like that's such a big deal that's so so cool and absolutely I did celebrate and I was able to spend some time with my loved ones but people have to understand that man that's just the outcome that was just an accumulation of my day-to-day when it actually mattered were the days I really didn't want to do it right the

12:31days that actually mattered are when I was waking up at 5:00 a.m. and I wasn't necessarily getting the best sleep because it was a really stressful period of time but I still followed through I was still productive I was still effective and that's because I was rewarding the behavior of the effort associated with it that's in my control right so perhaps going and waiting for a milestone or perhaps waiting for an a isn't necessarily always the thing that's in my control but what's in my control is perhaps going to an office hour session and asking the TA or the Professor for help like that's in my

13:00control perhaps it's me being more active in class and raising my hands and participating that's in my control perhaps it's utilizing the Learning System book and being able to Prime use effective in-class notes and do my post class immediate review and use active recall applications for my revision that's in my control when we're talking about social media the amount of videos that I post on a daily basis the ability to respond to comments and DMS and and just interact with my incredible audience like that's in my control the amount of following that I increase on on one day isn't necessarily in my control does that make sense so I think

13:32a lot of people when they think reward only associated with a large outcome and when in reality when we need the positive feedback loop is actually in the daytoday right and so if you could even have the different perspective switch of telling yourself an affirmation of if you got worked on on the day that you didn't feel like it and taken a second and that's why I always tell you to journal in our mentorship program I require everyone in the 60-day challenge there's many many many there's hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people that are doing this at they do their mind their body and their Spirit

14:01wins each day and for their honest accountability they'll journal and they'll reflect on it and they'll reflect on it because when they're doing things that are hard right when they didn't feel like accomplishing their mind their body and their Spirit WIS along with everything else in their lives and they can reflect on the fact that they still did it that positive affirmation opens and and creates this reprogramming that's very very very powerful right and so even that frame of mind of you know what most people would have quit today I didn't that's huge and even that type of positive affirmation to yourself can be a reward and of

14:31itself maybe it's something a little bit more physical to that and I think that's fine sometimes when I really succeed in my efforts in a particular event or in a certain school day or for work that I might treat myself to my favorite meal for dinner right even something like that or perhaps my favorite dessert or something to look forward to our schedule so maybe it's quality time with the people that I care for even things like that are going to be a really good way to condition yourself in really really difficult moments to still follow through so reward your small wins okay it's not just about the big ones and

15:04it's not just about the outcome based it's about the daily efforts that's where we actually need the reprogramming so with that being said that breaks down to the four really important steps that I would encourage you to follow if you're in a slump the first one would be to remember your why connect yourself to the purpose it doesn't have to be this immediate result but it's a connection to something bigger than you or perhaps it's development of your yourself because of that challenge number two break down your macro goals into micro goals keeping it solely as macro goals can be extremely overwhelming so take the extra step to break it down into

15:39feasible ones that's a lot more easier to overcome and build yourself the momentum and the confidence moving forward and then number three reduce your initial friction this can be with the time consideration with the 321 method of the 5 minute rule or can be physically setting yourself up for success and the fourth one reward your small win so after you put in that type of action reward that behavior so that you can condition yourself to continuously do that in the future thank you guys so much for watching I hope that this video was helpful leave your comments below if you have any questions I'd be more than happy to respond to it

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