5 SECOND RULE that helps me fight LAZINESS

137,748 views ・ 2017-11-19

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Hey, guys, welcome to my channel.
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Under one of my last photos on Instagram,
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you asked me about how I manage to work
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for three consecutive hours, how I motivate myself.
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So this video is about the simplest rule
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out there that has been working for me for all my life.
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If you're interested, continue watching this video.
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How do you like-- ah!
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Good sign, right.
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[MUSIC PLAYING]
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As I said, the rule is super easy.
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You need to start acting within five seconds
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after you have a thought of starting doing something.
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And that is, for example, you have a dream
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of starting your own company.
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Yes, I need a start a bakery.
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The next thing you're going to do
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is you're going to go Google within five seconds
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and Google the bakeries that around your place
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and explore your competition, or you
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want to get education in the States.
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The next thing - you're going to sit down and research
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your universities.
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Why within five seconds?
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The problem is is that our body does everything
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to prevent our brain from working,
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because when our brain works, it consumes
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25% of our energy.
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So the task of our body is create conditions
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where a brain does not work, because otherwise it
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will consume all of the energy.
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Have you noticed that before you start your exam preparation,
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before you study, you think like,
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oh my god, my room is so dirty.
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I need to clean up, or like, oh my god, before I start,
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I need to order all of those books
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and then wait till they arrive so I
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can use them in my preparation.
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This is something that your brain does.
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It creates activities that do not involve it's work.
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But you can change that, right.
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And you can change it by starting
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acting within five seconds.
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Another thing, how you notice that all of the professors,
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like the majority of professors of universities,
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they're really thin.
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And it's because they work with their brain all the time.
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And brain activity can seems a lot more energy than sport.
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So how do you start acting within five seconds
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after you have a thought?
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For me, what I do, I split one big goal
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into really easy tasks.
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As I said, you want to start your company,
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research your competition first.
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You want to get admitted to a foreign university,
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start researching big universities.
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Like split those into small goals and create a Trello desk.
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Trello is a free service that you can use.
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It can go online and create your own desk-- maybe like five
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that I use.
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And I use them to split my goals into small steps
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that I can do every day.
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Another thing connected to this rule and that
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does not work-- well, at least, for me,
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I know some people say if you share your goal with everybody,
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then you have more motivation to work on it.
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They start completing their goals
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by posting on Instagram like, hey,
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I just decided to start my company.
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just decided to start my channel.
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Watch me, I'm going to rock it, blah, blah, blah.
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I think this is a wrong approach.
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With this action, you're sending your brain a signal
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like I've made my first step and your brain is like, oh,
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congrats, well done.
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Let's go watch Netflix.
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There is new TV series.
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That doesn't work.
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That doesn't get you to your goal.
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The second reason why I don't like this
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is that because if you do not accomplish what you promised,
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then people would think you're a liar or you're a lazy person.
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So I just do it.
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Another practice that I implemented my life.
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If you need to do something that you really hate,
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like preparing a report, tell your brain
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we're going to work for 25 minutes only,
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and then we're going to take a five minute break.
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And then we're going to work for 25 minutes again,
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and then we're going to take a five minute break.
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Because when you anticipate an hour of working,
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you're going to look for reasons to not do this job.
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But if you really need to do it, telling your brain that it's
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only 25 minutes and then you go we're going to grab coffee,
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we're going to grab tea, we're going
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to listen to music, that makes it more relaxing.
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So try splitting your workday into 25 minute slots.
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I bet you're going to see the progress.
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Like, I saw the progress immediately
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when I started doing this, when I
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started doing this and applying this rule to tasks
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that I hate, hate, hate.
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The last two things that I wanted
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to add in this video, guys, sleep well.
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This is super important.
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This is so important, you can't really imagine.
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When you wake up and when you have
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like healthy eight hours of sleep,
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you can work on a completely different level.
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There is an area in a brain that is called cortex.
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And it is responsible for producing
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high level results that are created with your brain.
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When you're deprived of sleep, this part doesn't actually
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receive a lot of blood.
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And we go down with our needs.
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We don't think of creating a new company.
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We just think of sleeping, getting more sugar, relaxation,
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blah, blah, blah.
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So sleep well.
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This is super important.
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And healthy sleep is much more important
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than solving a problem or watching Netflix.
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Sorry, Netflix, I don't me to--
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getting a good sleep is so much better and so
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much more important than finishing your tasks today,
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tonight, or watching another video, or just relaxing.
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Just go to bed and sleep.
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And the last thing, try to be within a community of people
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who have the same goals, because together, you just motivate
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each other to work harder.
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For example, if you want to learn a language,
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you're going to study language, go to language school.
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I hope you guys will get through a language [INAUDIBLE]
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if you do.
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And you will be surrounded by students who
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are learning the same language.
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And many of them want to stay in the country
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and apply for a university degree,
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I want to move to this country and get a job,
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or if you want to do the split, go to the gym,
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take a class where everybody tries to do a split.
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And you will be surrounded by other people
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with the same goals.
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Guys, if you still watching this video,
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please take part in my research.
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Write down in comments below how long do
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do you sleep each night.
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I actually track my sleep with a bracelet.
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And I would say I sleep on average five to six hours,
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but this means that I spend, at least, eight hours in bed
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just resting, but the deep sleep is like five to six hours.
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Let me know how long do you sleep each night,
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and let's compare our answers.
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This was it for today guys.
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Thank you so much for your questions.
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please feel free to ask them in the comments
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