3 HACKS IN 2 MINS TO

INCREASE YOUR STUDY

SESSIONS WAY BETTER!
We procrastinate about
things that makes us
uncomfortable.
- Barbara Oakley, Author of Mind for Numbers
TODAY'S
Simple hack to avoid
1 procrastination

AGENDA 2 The enemy to good work

Powerful hack used by top

3 performers to stay driven

4 Summary and Action Items

HACK 1: USE DOPAMINE
TO YOUR ADVANTAGE
Dopamine is a neurotransmitter in your
brain, responsible. for allowing you to feel
pleasure, satisfaction and motivation. When
you feel good that you have achieved
something, it's because you have a surge of
dopamine in the brain.
Dopamine is most notably involved in
helping us feel pleasure as part of the
brain's reward system. Sex, shopping,
smelling cookies baking in the oven — all
these things can trigger dopamine release,
or a "dopamine rush." This feel-good
neurotransmitter is also involved in
reinforcement.
"The simplest way to trigger the dopamine
to our advantage is creating a To do list and
striking it off "
- Gregory Caremans, Neurocognitive
and behavioral expert
ACTION TIME
1 Everynight before going to bed,
plan what you are going to study
the next day.
Break what you are going to
2
study into mini parts.
Next day, during your study time,
3
everytime you finished that task,
strike the task in your to do list.
4 After finish your tasks for the day or
when you have studied the
number of hours you have planned
to study. Give a reward. Eg: I go to
play basketball after my study
sessions got over, or I would watch
my favourite youtuber videos,
sometimes I go and drink cold
coffee with my friends after my
study time or most often I spend
time in social media and scrolling
the feed.
TO DO LIST I'VE USED TO STUDY 16 HOURS FOR THE TEST
SERIES

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 1 Here's a two minutes task for you.
HACK 2: REMOVING THE
DISTRACTION 2
Name all the possible
distractions.

It often go like this during my study time. I'll

3 Make it difficult to access during
sit for study. Suddenly after sometime, I feel
the task is difficult or I feel frustrated I can't
your study time.
able to understand the concept.
4 If you are like me, the majority of
I'll put the note away and I'll start using my distraction will be from my phone.
phone, and it'll end up like 30-45 minutes of So I keep the phone in my shelf,
scrolling through social media and then I that too at the lower part of sheld.
feel guilty. So everytime I have a temptation to
check phone, I won't go becase I
So remove all the distractions during your have to stand up from my work
study time and make it difficult to access place, walk to my shelf and I have
during that time. to bend and I have to reach out for
my mobile.
ADDITIONAL TIP 1:
I often feel very difficult to getting started for when I planned
to study, I will do all the possible things not to study. The
simple hack is, Whenever you feel difficulty in getting started,
just force yourself to start studying for at-least two minutes.

Once you break the inertia of idleness to study mode, you will
get going steadily.

Some authors call this as covert start, James clear(author of

Atomic habits) calls it a Two minute rule. All are same. Just
start your work.
ADDITIONAL TIP 2:
If you are some who is not used to study 10 hrs or 12 hrs a day.
It'll be very difficult in the beginning to get started.

There is a concept called Success spiral which I read in

motivational hacker book , that is, you have to start
something small before you have to make it big.

So the first day you start studying, study for 2 hours or may be
4 hours, whichever you feel comfortable. Then gradually
increase it. You'll be amazed what will happen after 10 - 15
days.

But only one rule : You shouldn't break the consistency at all
cost. Study everyday.
POWERFUL HACK USED BY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE AND
HOW YOU CAN DO THIS TOO!
Now you may ask me, "Rahu, some people are
1 Here's a two minutes task for you.
like motivated like hell, they don't need any to
do list, they keep their phones with them, how
they can do that"
2 When you wake up in the
To be honest there are many factors for morning and before going to
motivation. And some people build powerful before sleeping. Just visualise
study habits. But one of the powerful way to your current situation and
stay driven is Mental contrasting. contrast it with future situation.
In this technique, you think about where you
are now and contrast it with what you want to 3 Feel it.
achieve. Feel how it feels when you are in
that dream job, feel how you doing
For example , imagine your current struggle,
that job, feel the amount of respect
your parents struggle, and contrast that with
that you get when you are in that.
where you wanna be, being an IIT ian or
getting that PSU job. Feel it explicitly exactly
Have that scene explicitely.
what you'll get, by doing your day to day work.

Here's how Virat Kohli did this:

https://youtu.be/X-XAvCkQ4Zo
NOW CHALLENGE FOR YOU!
1 Tonight before going to bed, Plan what you are going to study. And
Break the big tasks into smaller tasks.

2 Block study time in your day (Eg: 9am to 1 am and 3pm to 8pm). And
remove the distractions and just study harder.

3 After your study time is over, give yourself a reward, do something you
enjoy doing.

4 Use the mental contrasting technique every day before going to bed,
wake up in the morning and whenever you feel demotivated.
Repeat the above hacks for next seven days and give a bigger reward.
5
Like going to movie or anything you like to do sunday.
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Stay Driven!