How to STUDY when you DON’T FEEL LIKE IT! - TRY THIS METHOD!
Summary
TLDRIn this motivational video, Jun Yu shares practical strategies to overcome academic slumps and low motivation. Drawing from his experiences as a Dean's List biomedical engineering graduate and entrepreneur, he emphasizes the importance of having a clear 'why' or purpose, breaking down large tasks into manageable goals, reducing initial friction through simple techniques, and rewarding small wins. Yu advocates for running towards challenges and using these moments to stand out from peers. The video encourages viewers to harness their struggles as opportunities for personal growth and success.
Takeaways
- 🎓 Embrace the universal student experience of feeling overwhelmed and unmotivated, as it's a common challenge faced by many.
- 💡 Rely on a consistent system rather than fleeting inspiration or motivation to achieve long-term success.
- 🚀 Use low motivation days as opportunities to separate from peers and stand out by pushing through the struggle.
- 🔑 Recognize that everyone has off days, and it's during these times that personal growth and distinction can occur.
- 🤔 Reflect on your 'why' - the underlying purpose that drives you beyond immediate tasks or challenges.
- 📚 Break down large goals into smaller, more manageable micro-goals to reduce overwhelm and build momentum.
- ⏱️ Utilize techniques like the Pomodoro Technique or the 5-minute rule to reduce initial friction and start tasks more easily.
- 🔄 Prioritize and execute tasks by breaking them down into actionable steps, which is key to exceptional productivity.
- 🏆 Reward yourself for small wins and daily efforts to create a positive feedback loop and reinforce good habits.
- 📝 Journaling and reflecting on daily wins can provide powerful affirmations and reprogram your mindset for success.
- 🌟 Celebrate both the big outcomes and the small, controllable actions that lead to them, fostering a growth mindset.
Q & A
What is the main challenge described in the script?
-The main challenge described in the script is experiencing a slump or a lack of motivation while having assignments or exams to prepare for, which leads to overwhelming emotions and feelings of guilt for not being productive.
What does the speaker suggest is not a good idea when trying to base actions on emotions?
-The speaker suggests that basing actions solely on inspiration or motivation is not a good idea, as these feelings can be inconsistent. Instead, one should rely on a more consistent system or set of steps to achieve desired results.
What perspective does the speaker encourage the audience to adopt regarding off days?
-The speaker encourages the audience to view off days as opportunities to create separation from peers and to stand out, by using these moments to push through and continue working even when motivation is low.
Outlines
🎓 Overcoming Academic Slumps and Embracing Challenges
The speaker, Jun Yu, a recent biomedical engineering graduate, discusses the common struggle of feeling unmotivated during academic endeavors. He emphasizes the importance of not relying on inspiration or motivation alone, but instead, developing a consistent system to achieve desired results. Jun also encourages viewers to use low motivation days as opportunities to separate themselves from their peers and to embrace challenges as a means of personal growth. He shares his personal background of overcoming financial struggles and academic challenges to inspire viewers to find their 'why' and to use it as a driving force.
🤔 The Importance of Having a 'Why' and Breaking Down Goals
The paragraph delves into the necessity of having a 'why' in life to avoid aimlessly pursuing goals set by society. It suggests that understanding one's purpose can help in facing difficult tasks and provides a deeper meaning to the work at hand. The speaker also advises breaking down overwhelming macro goals into smaller, more manageable micro goals to prevent overthinking and to build momentum and confidence. Techniques like the Pomodoro Technique are recommended for making tasks feel less daunting and more achievable.
🔧 Reducing Initial Friction and Leveraging Productivity Windows
This section focuses on reducing the initial friction that prevents starting a task by using methods like the 5-minute rule or the 321 method. It also highlights the importance of setting up a productive environment to make it easier to begin work, such as preparing materials the night before. The speaker shares his personal productivity window, a non-negotiable 90-minute to 3-hour period each morning dedicated to his most demanding tasks, and the strategy of preparing the night before to ensure success during this time.
🏆 Rewarding Small Wins and Creating Positive Feedback Loops
The final paragraph emphasizes the importance of recognizing and rewarding small wins to create positive feedback loops. These small rewards can help reinforce good habits and make the process of achieving larger goals more enjoyable and sustainable.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Slump
💡System
💡Perspective
💡Why
💡Break down goals
💡Initial friction
💡Reward small wins
💡Positive feedback loop
💡Macro goal
💡Micro goal
Highlights
The speaker emphasizes that feeling overwhelmed and unmotivated is a universal student experience.
The importance of relying on a consistent system rather than inspiration or motivation is discussed.
The concept of using off days as opportunities to create separation from peers is introduced.
The speaker's background as a Deans List biomedical engineering student is shared.
The idea of embracing struggles as a way to stand out and succeed is presented.
Transcripts
you 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
what 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
really 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
so 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
I 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
again 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
engineering 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
fin 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
in 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
that 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
that 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
hard 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
engineering 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
can 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
you 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
manageable 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
perhaps 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
right 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
already 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
tremendous 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
tremendous 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
physically 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
night 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
the 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
days 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
control 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
a 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
wins 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
itself 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
it'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
feasible 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
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