 So you want to make some changes. Maybe you want to study better. Maybe you want to be more productive. But today's video guys I'm going to show you how to do all of that without feeling like you're going in circles. Alright guys what is going on? Lex here from The New Journey helping you succeed on your medical journey with less stress. Now today is another episode in the motivational Monday series where I'm all about helping you enjoy your Mondays as much as your Fridays. And today's video guys is about the concept of dials over switches. And to explain the concept let me give you a quick scenario. Tell me if this sounds familiar. You're a new student you know first week, first month of med school and you scour the internet trying to find the best thing, the new best study strategy. And you give it a shot. You feel good about yourself. You're like this is going to be the one. And you spend a week week studying. You take the quiz, the exam, get the results back. Boom. You did worse. And not only did you do worse now you feel incompetent. You feel like you're dumb. You don't feel like you belong in med school. And it's not of the study strategy or you who as at fault instead it's how quickly you made the adjustments and what adjustments you made. You flip the switch. Flipping the switch is where you make a complete 180 turn on everything you're trying to make improvements on. Instead guys you need to turn the dial. Now let's explain this through our studying example. Now studying isn't one thing it's broken it's actually multiple components right. There is a part where you take your nose there's a part where you read and then the last two is where you review and you master and learn the material long term. So those last two are things like flashcards and outlines things like practice questions review slides but instead of getting rid of all of that at one time you really just need to make small changes. So that's what this video is about guys. It's about turning the dial and not turning the switch. So here is a step by step way how to make sure you're doing dials over switches. So the first thing is identifying what you want to change. For example you can say I want to be better at studying but that doesn't really say very much. It just says I want to be a better person. That's not very capable goal. You need to instead identify something in your studying you feel it could be improved. Maybe you can take notes better. Maybe you can spend more time reviewing whatever it may be. Make sure you identify a small thing. Now the second step is to change one thing at a time. So if you're trying to adjust and improve your studying instead of saying I'm going to do flashcards now. I'm going to do some usual questions. Anki, I heard Anki was cool. Whatever it may be. Find one thing. Make the adjustment. Then step three is to evaluate a few days or a few weeks depending on what your goal or idea is. See how it got better. And then step number three is to evaluate in a few days, a few weeks depending on what you're adjusting and seeing one. How do I feel? Do you feel better after doing this? Maybe you feel you know more energized after studying. That's a good thing. Or maybe you just do better performance wise on your tests and your exams. That's also a good result. Now what if you don't do well? Step number four is on anything that doesn't go well. First go back to what you're doing that was working and then make a different adjustment. Don't have all your dials kind of adjusted and try to tinker with them. First make sure you get one right and then keep making more and more improvements. And that doesn't go just what you're studying. Go through the productivity. There are things that I've tried to be more productive and they didn't work. So instead of making drastic changes, I went back to what was working. Then I tried new changes. If they worked, I kept them and I kept trying to tinker and tinker and tinker until I felt I was happy with my productivity and I'm making changes on a daily basis. I do this with everything guys. So you should too. But just remember, be happy with where you are. Be okay with making progress. But make sure you are making small incremental dial changes and not switches. So that is this video. I know they're short. That's the point of Motivational Monday is to get you the content to help you enjoy your Mondays as much as you write it. If you enjoyed this video guys, make sure you give this video a like. Subscribe to the channel. Let me know. First of all, if you enjoy this, if you do, I'll keep making more. But with that guys, no further ado. Thank you so much for being a part of my journey. Hopefully I've been a little help on yours and I'll see you guys in the next one. Take care guys.