How to make studying so FUN that it almost feels like a video game...

I'm going to show you how you can make studying more fun and if you're watching this and you don't really enjoy studying and you find studying is just kind of something that's really annoying something that feels like a chore that you have to do then this video is for you this is probably going to be the most valuable video that you're going to watch today so I'm an a-level student who recently graduated high school I think I could tell you a thing or two about how to make studying more fun and enjoyable if you can

make studying just a little bit more fun just a little bit doesn't have to be a lot you'll be able to study more consistently and become a top student so the first thing that you need to do is to change your mindset so now studying for you it's not going to be a chore it's not something that you're forced to do it's something that you get to do you get to study because you get to learn and get into a top university so you can get a hyping job and so you get to retire your

parents so basically what I've done there is I've just removed all the half like I have to do this I have to do that and I've just replaced it with the word get so now that I've told you this you kind of feel like studying kind of becomes a little bit more appealing right because it's not something that you have to do anymore it's something that you get to do so not that I've changed your mindset the second thing that you need to do is is to make studying fun and I know I've just repeated

this point but hear me out this is completely different to what you're thinking what I'm trying to say is that you need to make studying an enjoyable thing to do so this is a piece of candy after you study you're going to eat that piece of candy straight afterwards now that candy doesn't have to be candy it can be like reading uh I don't know watching like Netflix or something the point is that you want to reward yourself after studying and the sooner that you reward yourself the more you will trick your brain into thinking

that oh if I study I will be able to get this reward and over time your brain will start to associate studying with the reward but even if there is no reward your brain will want to study because it it anticipates this reward so the third thing that you want to do is to enjoy the process you see step two was trying to make studying more fun but step three now it's a little bit more advanced from step two so how can you do this well firstly most students are studying completely wrong they read from

their textbook they read from their notes and then they think to themselves why is studying so boring so what you want to do instead of these things you want to do active recall this means pass papers this means flashcards and everything else in between because when you're doing active recall it's actually challenging like reading the textbook reading your notes rewriting your notes it's not challenging at all so what you want to do instead of these passive studying methods you want to be doing active recall but I'm not going to lie to you pass papers is

probably the most challenging method but challenging doesn't mean that it's going to be boring challenge can be fun think of the G video games that you've played in the past for me when I was a kid I remember playing Angry Birds and there was just one level that I just could not complete I kept trying and trying and trying and trying for like 3 hours until I finally completed it when and when I completed it I felt so related I felt so wonderful what I'm trying to say is that most video games GES that are

addicting they have an element of challenge they have an element of competition that's why they have PVP in games they like they make you like fight players and other stuff it's because it stimulates challenge it stimulates competitiveness so you want to make studying a challenge not something that's too easy because if it's too easy your brain is just going to be like nah [ __ ] this I don't want to do this and here's a little tip when you're doing pass p papers you want to set a timer oh that that is a terrible drawing

you want to set a timer I don't know if you can see this but this is supposed to be a watch so the next time you try and do pass papers try and time yourself you will work so much faster whenever I time myself firstly I'm simulating the exam conditions and secondly it gives me a incentive to finish the past paper in the fastest amount of time possible and when that happens my brain is completely locked in on the task so the very last thing that you need to do is to do a dopamine detox

I'm going to be honest the main reason why you think studying is boring is because your brain is screwed up so was around 15 years old and I'm sitting on the top bunk of a train and then I opened the curtain and I asked my Dad hey Dad do you have a phone that I can borrow for just a second and I really want to play Scrabble do you mind like giving me your phone just for a little bit so I got his phone but I didn't go into Scrabble I went on Google opened an

incognito tab and I started watching porn and I just started watching my screen like my eyes were just glued to the screen and I was just watching all that stuff going on and it was Heaven I really enjoyed it I'm going to spare you the details but afterwards I remember feeling like a piece of [ __ ] and this was my dad's phone my father's phone that I used to watch porn and it was around that time where I just kind of started getting really really addicted to porn and that kind of [ __ ]

me over so badly and I couldn't even concentrate in class without thinking about the last video that I watched so so what I think you need to do is to remove all the little inant gratification activities like maybe like it's for you it's like scrolling on social media like me maybe you were a point addict or maybe it's just video games but the point is the more you remove yourself of all these things that cause your brain to go Haywire the more you're going to be able to enjoy hard things like studying you'd love doing

hard harder and harder things like going for a run going to the gym and all of those healthy self-improvement activities because at the end of the day self-improvement is what is really going to help you get the best grades it's no secret I mean if you improve your life if you improve yourself improve your body improve your mind naturally you're going to be better at studying as well so I know that this video is supposed to be like a video on how you can make study more fun but at the core of it all self-improvement

is the key and that's what my free community successful students is all about it's not just about getting the best grades possible it's about improving yourself and getting to a level where getting good grades just becomes effortless if you want to check it out I can link it down in the description and the pin comment below but as always may God guide us on the right path and I'll see you in the next video