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in this video I'm going to show you how
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you can be so productive and get so much
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done in a single day that it feels
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illegal I'll do this by sharing three
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powerful productivity principles that
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helped me to unlock this illegal level
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of productivity in my time in mid school
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as well as helping me rank first for my
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postgrad studies now these principles
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have worked not only for me but for
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thousands of Learners that I've taught
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this to from around the world so they
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will work for you too these three
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principles are number one the parto
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principal number two the Zar niik effect
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and number three the
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championship mentality and as a bonus
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I'll also teach you a way to supercharge
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each of these three principles and use
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them in a way that I have never heard
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anyone else on YouTube talk about so
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let's start with number one the Paro
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principle in my first year of University
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when I was trying to enter into mid
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school I was studying 15 to 20 hours
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every single day and a lot of that time
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was spent on doing my flash cards I had
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by the end of the year over 4,000 flash
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cards for my papers and I would be
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spending five six hours every single day
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either preparing my flashcards or doing
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my flash cards I had this Google sheet
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that had all the questions on it and I
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would track how difficult I found it and
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then how many times I got it wrong and
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what priority it was and I had this sort
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of a elaborate system that I'd created
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for managing my flash cards but at the
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end of the day I found that my results
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were still not that consistent I was
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still having to study a lot of hours
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just to get the grades that I got and
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when I actually entered into medical
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school that system was just completely
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unsustainable because the workload was 2
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three four times what it was before and
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the moral of the story here is that at
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the end of the day it still wasn't
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enough and the reason is because what I
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was focusing in spending my time on
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which was just optimizing my flash cards
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wasn't the thing that was going to make
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the biggest difference and this is
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really what the PTO principle is about
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sometimes it's called the 8020
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Rule and the idea is that
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80% of the benefit or the impact of
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something can come from 20% of the time
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or effort or work and when you focus
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your time and attention on the other
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side the 80% of things that produce 20%
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of the impact it leads to a lot of waste
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of time a lot of frustration it's very
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annoying and it's very stressful and
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that's really how I felt during those
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first couple of years and I think a
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great example to illustrate the par
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principle is if you think about your
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health there are so many things that you
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can do to optimize your health like the
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amount that you sleep uh what you're
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drinking how often you're drinking what
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foods you're eating the specific micro
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macronutrients balance you have the type
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of exercise the frequency of your
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exercise you know the way that you
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support yourself in recovery after the
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exercise uh you know you can take
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additional like supplements and you can
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do meditation this list is so exhaustive
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like that's the entire industry right
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but really if you just get 20% of those
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things right like if you have good sleep
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you're drinking and you're eating
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reasonably well and maybe you're doing
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some kind of light exercise it doesn't
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matter the frequency exactly what you're
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doing just do something sometimes you're
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80% going to be there to being pretty
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healthy and and feeling really good
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about yourself and when you focus on the
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other 80% of the things like you can
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take every supplement there is off the
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shelf but if you're not getting that 20%
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right and your sleep is not good and
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you're not you're not you're not
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drinking regularly then you're going to
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suffer like it doesn't matter what the
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other 80% is and so this is really
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important when it comes to productivity
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because productivity is all about how
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you manage limited resources the number
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one resource that's limited being your
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time you have the same number of hours
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in a day as Leonardo da Vinci and
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Michelangelo did and so figuring out
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what's worth doing and what's not worth
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doing is really the key and I think a
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powerful way of thinking about the spro
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principle is not that 20% of the things
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you do contribute to 80% of the results
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but it's an understanding if you have a
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list of 10 things that you need to get
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done what it means is that eight of
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those 10 things are essentially going to
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be a waste of time compared to figuring
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out what the two that really make the
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most impact are and then spending your
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time absolutely crushing those and I
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think of the Paro Principle as the
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fundamental pillar of all productivity
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because the impact that the Paro
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principle has is it allows you to stack
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your gains so I want you to imagine that
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this circle represents you and then this
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uh cross represents the goal that you
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want to
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achieve when we just do everything and
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we don't strictly prioritize exactly
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where we want to spend our time and
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what's going to help us get 80% of the
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way to our goal we end up doing
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this we spend a lot of time doing lots
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of things moving in many different
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directions and at the end of the day
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despite being very busy we're still not
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very close to our
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goal once we use the pral principle what
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happens is that we figure out what the
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things are that take us towards the goal
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and it means in the same amount of time
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or effort or even less we're able to
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achieve our goal now when you look at
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someone that's using the Paro principle
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day in day out in their life and you see
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someone living like this this is the
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type of person you look at and you think
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man this person is focused
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this person has Clarity this person
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knows the direction they're going
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everything for them feels like it's all
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laid out you can see that they're moving
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purposefully towards your goal and you
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wonder how it is that they make it look
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so easy to get so much done and be so
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productive while you are just
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squandering and when you look at the
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person that is doing this they're not
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using the Proto principle they're
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spending their time across the entire
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100% then they're very very busy they
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are floundering their person just
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treading water you can see they are
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flustered they're not you know
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potentially they're falling behind and
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despite being so busy they are wondering
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why they don't seem to be getting any
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closer to the goal so here's the key
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takeaway for using the parto principle
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the first thing is to actually spend
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time planning and prioritizing upfront
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if you're really busy and you feel like
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you don't have enough time to plan and
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prioritize or use the Paro principle and
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figure out what is that 20% that
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produces the impact
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then let me tell you this if planning is
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costly not planning is more costly
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nothing is going to kill your
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productivity more than spending time on
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things that are a waste of time but you
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have to spend the time upfront to figure
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out what is or is not a waste of time
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and this is the second takeaway is that
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good
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prioritization
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feels bad
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here's a part that most people Overlook
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if you've got a list of things to do the
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items that make it onto your Todo list
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are already fairly important if someone
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says hey have you ever thought about
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learning how you can juggle flaming
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swords riding a unicycle while making an
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origami crane using your tongue then you
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might say no I've never thought about
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doing that and I'm probably never going
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to think about doing that
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and unless your future career path is
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that of a very Niche circus performer
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that item is never going to be important
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enough to be on your to-do list
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everything that's on our to-do list has
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already been filtered and shortlisted
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out and we have made the decision this
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is important enough for me to do so what
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that means is that when you go through
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and figure out the 80% of the things
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that are not really getting you towards
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your goal that are making the biggest
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impact out of all the other things that
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you could be doing it's going to feel
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bad to take them off your list because
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you are acutely aware of what you are
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losing by not doing this I am losing out
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on this and that feels bad and so I want
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to normalize and let you know that when
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you're prioritizing well it should feel
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bad because that means you're making the
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difficult decisions about what you're
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willing to lose strategically that helps
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you spend the time in the way that gets
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you you to your goal and my final point
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is to think
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holistically productivity is not just
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about doing work or studying or planning
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prioritization is about everything you
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spend your time on and that means taking
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a break spending time with loved ones
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engaging in your hobbies getting good
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sleep these are all things that help
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sustain and rejuvenate you productivity
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is anything that helps you get towards
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your goal and if you're 3 weeks into to
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a Sprint of not having had any breaks
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and you've just been studying and
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working the entire time and you're
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feeling like you're burning out then the
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thing that is going to get in the way of
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you achieving your goal is the fact that
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you're burning out or that you're too
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tired and so choosing to ignore
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self-care and Recovery is an incredibly
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unproductive decision and again making
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that decision can feel bad because it's
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not clearing my backlog of work and
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study that I need to do I'm just sitting
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there resting wasting time but you have
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to recognize it's not a waste of time
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it's actually very productive and so if
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you just use this principle just the
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parto Principle as I've told you and
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nothing else already for a lot of you
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this is going to two to 3x your
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productivity pretty much immediately but
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now I'll tell you how you can
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supercharge this in a way that no one
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really talks about and just to be clear
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it's the supercharging of this that
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makes this feel illegal we can turn the
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Paro principle into the
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parto squared
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principle what this means is that you
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can actually apply the Paro principle to
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itself so let's say that of this list of
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10 items here we figured out the two
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that get us towards our goal in the in
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the highest possible impact well if we
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were to take those two and we were to
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break them up we' find that these two
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tasks have components to it so let's
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just say that each of these tasks have
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five
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components well of these five components
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or subtasks that make up the two major
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tasks 20% of these will contribute 80%
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of the impact so let me say for example
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writing an essay is the major task well
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if we break up this process of writing
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an essay we might find that first we
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need to think of a plan uh we need to be
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clear on the objectives of the essay we
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need to write the main points we need to
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then draft them and then we need to
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refine it let's say that that's your
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process for writing an essay well of
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this your initial first step the
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planning is the thing that's going to
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make your essay the best whatever you
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plan affects what you write and how you
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draft it and so if there's areas in your
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planning those areas get carried forward
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or a common one is if there's a big
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decision that you need to make well one
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of the things that helps you make a
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really good decision is just having more
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information to make a good decision so
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just the first step of collecting more
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information or even writing down the
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things you need more information about
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that would help you make a better
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decision that is the 20% that helps you
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with the remaining 80% and so by using
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not just the Paro principle but the
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protos squared principle the additional
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benefits this gives is that first of all
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this actually reduces your
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procrastination because the task that
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you're focusing on is no longer this
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huge big overwhelming task you're
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focusing on this tiny first initial step
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and number two because you're
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prioritizing it so strictly it also
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increases your success
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rate by focusing on the most important
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part of a task it ures that you're doing
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the most important part to a high
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quality and once you do this part the
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rest of it becomes much easier which
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again reduces procrastination even more
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and so the takeaway for the predo
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squared principle is to spend even more
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time by figuring out the 20% of the 20%
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to identify your most most important
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task and by the way for those of you
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that are interested if you do the maths
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on the PTO squid principle what that
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works out to is 4% of your time being
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used to create
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64% of the total impact towards your
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goal and if you compare someone that's
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not using these principles which is this
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this guy here and you compare yourself
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to this person who's using all of their
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time doing all of their tasks what this
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person is able to achieve in two 2 and 1
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half months you can do by the end of the
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week that is what the PTO squ principle
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unlocks by the way if your goal is to be
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more productive then one of the highest
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priority tasks one of the 4% of things
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that produce the Major Impact is to
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create a learning system learning is the
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Mega skill it's the tide that lifts all
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boats it's the it's the wish for more
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wishes when you become a better learner
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every skill becomes easier to learn and
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you become more productive and to help
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you become a better learner I've created
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a free learning system assessment for
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you this quiz evaluates your current
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learning system and it gives you a score
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out of 100 based on its Effectiveness
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more importantly you also get a
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personalized report that tells you which
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parts of your learning system are
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holding you back it basically tells you
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exactly what is the 20% in your learning
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that if you were to improve gives you
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80% of the results I highly recommend
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giving it a go and it is free I'll leave
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a link to it in the description below so
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the first thing was the Paro principle
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and that helps you to prioritize your
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task s but once you've got your 20% or
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your 4% the other issue we run into is
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procrastination there's no point
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prioritizing the 4% if you never
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actually do it fortunately this is where
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the second pillar comes in and this is
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called the zaric effect and I probably
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use the zaric effect every single day
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after my fifth year of medical school I
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decided to take a year of doing honors
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research and so this was my first time
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doing my own research and the first part
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of doing research is what's called a
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literature review which is where you're
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reading through all the research within
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a field and then you're writing this big
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report based on it and I was starting
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this in the summer holidays I started
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off really enthusiastic and really
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really Keen but because I'd never really
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written such a lengthy literature review
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before and it was a topic that I
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honestly wasn't that interested in I
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found myself putting it off and
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procrastinating on it for weeks in fact
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it got so bad that after the first month
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where I hadn't done anything my
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supervisor actually emailed me to say
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like hey Justin are you still keen on
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this project because you seemed really
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enthusiastic but you actually haven't
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shown me anything and so I was like oh
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crap I need to produce something to show
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my supervisor and so for the next 3 days
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I really quickly got some stuff together
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that just makes it look like I've been
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working on things and then I sent it to
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her and what I found was that even
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though I wasn't doing the literature
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review properly and I was just creating
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something to send to my supervisor the
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very fact that I started on this process
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made me feel more motivated to keep
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going with it and so the next day I did
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more and more and more and more and more
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until eventually I'd actually just done
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the entire literature review and so it
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was just that first step as we all know
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that helps to break procrastination and
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this is what the zga neck effect is
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about the zga neck effect says that a
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task is easier to complete when it is
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left incomplete the idea is that when
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there's this incomplete task we want to
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finish it off it stays in our head it
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occupies that space we know we've got
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the ball rolling we want to finish it
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that completionist tendency of us comes
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out and so if we deliberate
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start a task not intending to complete
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it and rather we want to start it and
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leave it in an incomplete State then
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this actually improves our
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motivation it reduces the amount of
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friction that we feel with starting the
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task because we know we don't have to
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finish it we just need to get started
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and you know getting started is frankly
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very easy if you don't care about
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finishing it and therefore the reduced
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friction reduces our procrastination
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and so the takeaway to using the zga
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Nick effect is to understand the wi
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condition for curing
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procrastination the win condition is not
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finishing the task your win condition is
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getting the task to a state where it's
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incomplete we should never think about a
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task as completing the task we should
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think about tasks as leaving them
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unfinished and if you're using the PTO
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principle or the PTO squar principle
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then we already took the time upfront to
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identify what is that task or subtask
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that if we were to focus on produces 80%
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of the result and that item becomes a
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thing that we just get started on and
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use the zga Nick effect for now pero
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Square principle plus zga Nick effect
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your productivity is already at this
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point through the roof but sky's the
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limit hey so here's how you can
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supercharge the zga effect to make it
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feel like it should be illegal and this
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is what I call the zonic squared
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effect just like we did with the Paro
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principle you can use the zonic effect
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on itself and this is by recognizing
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that the idea of getting started on a
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task actually has many substeps to it
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for example if the task I want to get
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started on is sitting down to study or
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plan my essay then before that I need to
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be at my desk and I need to have all my
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books and my resources out available to
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me and I need to have uh let's say an
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organized space and I need to have do
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not disturb activated on my phone and so
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you can actually get started on getting
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started with organizing your space
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getting your books and everything ready
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laying them out on your desk so that the
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only thing left to properly get started
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is to just sit down and start and here's
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a bonus tip if you really struggle with
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procrastination with something you can
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actually use a reverse zonic squared
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effect you can make it really hard to
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get started on something that you would
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normally get procrastinated with so I
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used to be a big gamer and one of the
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things that I changed is I went from
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having this big gaming PC
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uh to a
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Macbook and I only had one monitor at
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the time and so I would plug my monitor
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into my MacBook which didn't have any
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games on it I just used it for work and
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so my computer would end up being
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unplugged for my monitor I went from
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gaming like hours and hours and hours
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like a day to gaming like couple hours a
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week because I just couldn't be bothered
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unplugging my monitor from my MacBook
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crawling under my desk opening up the
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panel in the back of my PC and like
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fiddling around to connect my HDMI cable
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and turning my PC on like I just I was
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so lazy and I couldn't be bothered it
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was so hard to get started with the
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distraction that I just didn't and the
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awesome thing is now with AI and other
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types of like automations and Technology
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we can make the aonic effect even easier
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by automating some of these things so
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for example let's say that when we're
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trying to plan an essay we want to get
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some initial first points down we want
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to think about some possible structures
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we want to check some of the resources
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well we can use something like chbt to
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just generate some points and some
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structures for us to start with it's
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like being given a running start on the
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task for free you can also set up
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calendar reminders to remind you to set
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up your books and set up your desk or uh
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you can set up automatic do not disturb
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Focus periods on your phone so that
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automatically when you know you're meant
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to be studying you have your phone flick
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into a do not disturb mode and so what
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we're doing now is we're not just
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getting started with getting started but
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we are enabling our environment and our
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technology to get us started for us so
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the key takeaway for using the zga neck
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squared effect is to just keep breaking
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it down and make it easy now the third
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productivity pillar amplifies the impact
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of the first two the third one is the
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championship mentality and this can be
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summarized with a statement lose the
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game to win the championship and a great
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example of this is Toyota yeah like the
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car company now in the modern day Toyota
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is known for having really reliable cars
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but this was not always the case in the
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50s and 60s Toyota used to produce very
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shy vehicles and so to fix this they
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actually slowed down their production
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proc they deliberately sacrificed their
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revenue and their profit they lost
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market share they sacrificed their
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volume in order to learn more about
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their production process they went into
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meticulous detail to figure out how they
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can improve and optimize their process
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before ramping Up the Volume again and
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the way Toyota improved their processes
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is actually like a business case that's
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taught in a lot of schools now and so
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the idea here is that again if if we are
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this circle and we're trying to reach
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this goal a lot of the time we don't
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actually know how to exactly achieve it
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it's difficult sometimes to figure out
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what is that 20% that produces the 80%
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impact because we don't know what our
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goal really truly requires of us and so
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what a lot of people will do is either
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just do a lot of stuff and just hope
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that it gets them towards their goal and
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that would be like just you
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know being really busy but not really
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being very productive again or they just
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do what's common and what other people
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say that they should do but this can be
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risky because what if they're wrong and
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so what the championship mindset tells
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us is that in order to achieve our
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ultimate goal we don't necessarily have
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to achieve every goal along the way and
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in fact it can be a better idea to not
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worry about beating and winning the next
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game in order for us to have a great
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chance at winning the championship so
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how does losing a game help us win a
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championship the answer is that by
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losing the game we are able to get
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valuable data and information that turns
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these unknowns into knowns and by doing
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that we're able to create a much better
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plan and prioritize and use the Paro
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principle more effectively I see this a
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lot when it comes to studying people
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might want to enter into a certain
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University degree or have this kind of
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long-term goal in place and they've got
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an exam coming up in one or two months
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they want to nail this exam so that they
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can achieve this ultimate goal but their
00:25:10
study skills are a mess they have no
00:25:12
idea what they're doing with their
00:25:14
studying they have no real
00:25:15
self-awareness or Insight they're not in
00:25:17
a position where they can really succeed
00:25:20
and so the best thing for this person to
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do would be to spend the next one or two
00:25:25
months on really learning about learning
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understanding how to learn and how to
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study what their habits are what their
00:25:31
Tendencies are experimenting with things
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and then building a learning system that
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really works that's going to be enough
00:25:38
for them to win the
00:25:39
championship but that might mean that
00:25:43
you spend so much time on just improving
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your skills and learning about yourself
00:25:48
that you actually fall behind on your
00:25:50
actual studying in that short period of
00:25:53
time so you might not do very well for
00:25:55
that immediate exam now you'll end up
00:25:58
crushing it in the next exam and the one
00:26:00
after that and one after that and one
00:26:01
after that but if you're so focused on
00:26:04
just winning every individual game and
00:26:06
what it's costing you is valuable
00:26:09
learning and understanding and figuring
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out these uncertainties that help you to
00:26:15
win the championship then you're
00:26:17
actually setting yourself up for failure
00:26:18
because at some point you're not going
00:26:20
to be able to win that short-term game
00:26:22
and now you're left with two problems
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number one you don't have the skills to
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win the champ chionship and number two
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because you've left it for so long you
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don't have enough time left to figure it
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out either now I'm not saying go and
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lose every single game and fail every
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single examp what I am saying is that
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sometimes to win the long game you need
00:26:41
to be ready to lose the short one so
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here's my takeaway for you to use the
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championship mentality number one figure
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out what does a championship mean to you
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is it really the next test or exam or
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promotion coming up or is it something
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further than that and then number two
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figure out what is the consequence of
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losing the
00:27:04
game what do losing this game really
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mean to you what's the consequence of it
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versus what are you giving up what's the
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opportunity cost what are you losing out
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on the opportunity for in order to just
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win this upcoming game have these two
00:27:21
things really clear in your mind and
00:27:23
revisit them once every month or so now
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here's the way that we can crack the
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Championship mentality to make it feel
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illegal so think about this the reason
00:27:34
we are willing to accept the loss in the
00:27:37
game short term is because that provides
00:27:39
valuable information to figure out how
00:27:41
to win
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longterm so if we think about the amount
00:27:45
of certainty we have at being able to
00:27:48
win here on the y- AIS this is our level
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of certainty in the beginning we start
00:27:54
off with a very low level of certainty
00:27:57
because we also have a very low level of
00:28:01
information and then what happens is
00:28:03
that as time passes we learn more about
00:28:07
what it takes to achieve our goal we
00:28:09
learn more about our Tendencies and our
00:28:11
habits and our processes and we find a
00:28:13
way to make it match but that takes time
00:28:16
and so as time goes on our level of
00:28:18
information starts going up and so too
00:28:21
does our level of certainty about how we
00:28:24
can succeed and how we can win so let's
00:28:26
say that this blue line represent
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presents the point at which we have
00:28:29
enough certainty to know how to win this
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is the line of
00:28:34
winning but let's say that this uh
00:28:36
dotted white line here this is when it
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matters what we don't want is we don't
00:28:46
want this period of learning and gaining
00:28:48
certainty to take so long that we
00:28:51
actually missed the boat we already
00:28:52
failed all of these goals and we look
00:28:54
back and think ah I regret not doing
00:28:56
things differently back then then that's
00:28:58
the thing I should have done differently
00:29:00
that's what we want to avoid and the way
00:29:02
we supercharge this Championship
00:29:04
mentality is realizing that this is
00:29:08
wrong there's this great saying time
00:29:11
changes nothing it's what you do in the
00:29:14
time that matters sometimes I'll be
00:29:16
talking to a student about the way that
00:29:18
they're studying and I'll say okay you
00:29:19
need to make these changes and this this
00:29:21
Improvement that's what you really need
00:29:22
to do to help you achieve this goal and
00:29:25
they say okay that sounds interesting
00:29:26
I'm just going to think about that for a
00:29:28
little bit give me like a week to just
00:29:29
think about what you've said and my
00:29:31
question there is what's going to happen
00:29:34
in that week are you are you spending
00:29:36
this week to go onto a meditative
00:29:38
Retreat light some incense over a fire
00:29:41
look at the stars and tell you what you
00:29:43
should be doing like there's this
00:29:46
assumption that by sleeping on it and
00:29:48
just time passing somehow it changes the
00:29:51
decision that you're going to make but
00:29:53
it doesn't at the end of the day what's
00:29:55
going to happen is that a week is going
00:29:56
to pass you're going to realize oh crap
00:29:58
I need to meet up with Justin again
00:30:00
tomorrow and you're going to do all the
00:30:01
thinking the night before and you could
00:30:03
just do that thinking immediately on the
00:30:06
spot and when we realize that our
00:30:10
ability to gain certainty and gain
00:30:13
information or something doesn't depend
00:30:15
on our time but depends on our
00:30:18
actions this is where we change the game
00:30:21
and we supercharge this and so while
00:30:23
everyone else is waiting to figure out
00:30:25
how they can succeed and what they need
00:30:27
to do what the stry is for them to win
00:30:29
just by letting time pass and sort of
00:30:31
passively learning about what to do you
00:30:33
can realize action is the thing that
00:30:35
makes a difference and in the same
00:30:37
amount of time you can take more
00:30:40
actions the same number of actions the
00:30:42
same amount of learning that someone
00:30:43
would have originally gained across this
00:30:46
period of time you can do it in this
00:30:48
period of time which means that you able
00:30:50
to get to a winning strategy much
00:30:52
earlier than everyone else and again if
00:30:54
I look at studying people make this
00:30:56
mistake constantly where they'll say hey
00:30:59
I'm going to do my best for this exam if
00:31:01
it doesn't go well okay I'll learn from
00:31:03
that what are you actually learning from
00:31:06
that what was the experiment that you
00:31:08
ran what is the data that you're getting
00:31:10
from that mistake that really helps you
00:31:12
and did you really need to wait 2 months
00:31:15
studying a certain way sitting an exam
00:31:17
failing that exam to realize that
00:31:20
mistake could you instead have tried an
00:31:23
experiment today tested yourself on that
00:31:26
tomorrow to see the effect effect that
00:31:28
it has and then iterated and
00:31:30
experimented on a daily basis to get
00:31:33
that same information or even more it's
00:31:35
ironic because one of the most common
00:31:38
pieces of feedback that I get from
00:31:40
students on my program is they say if
00:31:43
they're older they say I wish I learned
00:31:45
this back when I was in school I wish I
00:31:46
knew this 10 years ago it would have
00:31:48
changed my life and then the most common
00:31:50
thing I hear from people that are 10
00:31:52
years ago that are in school in that
00:31:55
place where they are currently actively
00:31:57
making those mistakes is I'll try it
00:32:00
later I don't really have time right now
00:32:02
I'm too busy struggling right now to
00:32:06
figure out how to do well but let me
00:32:09
tell you if you don't make time to learn
00:32:13
how to succeed that time will be made
00:32:16
for you later through failure so
00:32:19
takeaway is don't be passive don't just
00:32:22
assume that the problems you have now
00:32:24
will solve themselves if you're serious
00:32:26
about gaining certain and achieving your
00:32:29
goals and giving yourself the best
00:32:30
chance of success take action do the
00:32:34
things and make the time that other
00:32:36
people are not making so that you can
00:32:37
learn what other people are not learning
00:32:39
so these are the three pillars of
00:32:42
productivity that are going to help you
00:32:44
get much more done and help you achieve
00:32:46
your goal and here's another video that
00:32:47
will help you to refine your learning
00:32:49
system so that you can level up your
00:32:51
productivity even more
