 So guys welcome back it's David here again and here I'm going to give you part two of my how to study for longer hours thing And even if you haven't seen the first part, this is the most important part of the video now I'm going to tell you a story here, and it's from a movie and there's a lesson in this and it Perfectly sums up what I want to tell you about how to overcome procrastination in your study work or in anything in life Right absolutely anything in life. So the movie is The Dark Knight Rises. It's the Batman movie You may have seen it if you haven't doesn't really matter because I'll have to explain it for the story anyway So what the heck does Batman have to do with procrastination? Okay? Well, here it is first thing You need to realize is how does it tie in with you? If you're currently in school or in university, I have a question for you Okay, and the question is this what is your biggest fear as a student? Okay, what is your biggest fear as a student? I love asking this question to students because almost everyone I ask it to gets the wrong answer It's not things like Failing exams. It's not You know sitting exams. It's not Fear of failure blah blah blah The biggest fear students have and remember this the biggest fear students have is that they don't study They're afraid that they won't study right think about it this way if I could if I met you and I could make way of a magic wand and It meant that you would never procrastinate again in your study work. How would you feel? You'd probably be delighted, right because you'd be like Well, that's that's like a load off my mind now I know I'll do the work that's necessary and I know that at least I'll try my very best. I can't do any more than that So the anxiety comes in the fear comes in for students with the fact that they're not sure Whether or not they will study right so not studying is the biggest fear they have Remember that because that ties in with something I'm going to tell you about consequences Introducing consequences for yourself if you don't follow through your important study work. So Back to the movie the hero of the movie is Batman, right? and he gets captured by the evil villain Bane and Bane puts them down in this Underground prison. It's like a huge big deep well. It's got big stone walls and Bane the bad guy doesn't kill him straight away like most of these bad guys in movies They don't just kill him straight away. They actually give he gives he gives him a chance to escape Okay, it's kind of a way of torturing him So, how does he escape this prison? How can he escape it? Well, the only option he has is he has to make a very dangerous climb up the walls of the prison and It's very very dangerous everybody pretty much everybody that's ever done it before has died. Okay, they've fallen to their death So he's looking at me and he's thinking well, I've got to I've got to at least try I've got to try this climb because I can't stay here. So he tries it and he fails So he says we're something wrong. So he starts working out He gets really really strong and fit and he tries it again and again and again and he keeps failing Okay, he keeps falling now the thing about the climb is that it's really dangerous and he can really hurt himself But it's made a bit easier by the fact that he has a rope attached to him. Okay, so while he's on the climb He even if he does fall sure he'll get hurt But he won't die because the rope will break his fall So he does it with the rope several several times and he always fails. So at this point Bruce Wayne is really really dejected and he's thinking I don't know how I'm gonna get out of this I really do not know how I'm gonna get out of this and he talks to another prisoner an old man who is in the cell next to him, I think and The old man sees his problem before he does and the old man says to him he says Basically, there's nothing wrong with your body. You're fit enough to do this climb You actually are capable of doing it. The problem is in your motivation You're making the climb and you're not afraid If you were really afraid You would do it, right? You'd be more success. You would be successful So he says he comes up with a crazy plan He says how you're gonna get out of this is you're gonna do the climb But you're gonna leave the rope behind no safety net. Okay, so Bruce Wayne decides, you know what? It's crazy idea, but I've got no other option at this point. So he does The climb without the rope and this time he succeeds Okay, this time you succeed. Okay, so that's the story Now how does that tie in with you? It ties in with your life very very well, and here's why so your biggest fear as a student is not studying, right and You have a sort of a climb to make in your life, too And because you're at the you could say you're at the bottom of your own metaphorical well, right? You're at the bottom of a prison and you want to get to the top Which is your study, right? If it was easy everyone would do it. So it is a challenge it is a sort of a thing you have to overcome and When you're on the journey you feel afraid because Success is not guaranteed. Okay, you feel afraid you feel uncertain Much like Batman did when he was attempting to climb he was afraid now when Batman was attempting to climb when he was afraid He used something to minimize his anxiety, which was the rope Now as a student Okay, here it is as a student when you're feeling anxious on your journey on you on your climb When you feel anxious you also use a rope and the rope is this you tell yourself because you're not studying I can do it later. You give yourself the option of doing it later Now what does that give you? You realize a lot. You're probably lying to yourself a bit But that's not in the moment when you say it. I can do it later You actually minimize your anxiety It makes you feel a bit better because you're not studying now, but in the future I will so you feel a little bit better, right? Now like in the story That little thing that kept his anxiety down helped him with his anxiety was the one thing That actually kept him in the prison. Okay, so I'm going to suggest something to you and you might think this is crazy But I'm going to suggest that like Batman you throw away the rope I'm going to suggest that you throw away this idea that you can do it later on and And I'm going to I'm not just going to say that's how you do it I just stop telling yourself you can do later on here is the really important thing There's a very practical way you can do that and it involves introducing consequences to You saying that you can't you're going to do later on and then not follow me through. How do you do it? Here's how do it, right? I Set out a time for myself to study say when I come home from college I'll set a time for myself to study We'll say seven o'clock So I'll say okay seven o'clock. I'm going to study and I'm going to sit down and as I've been saying in my other videos I only ever say half an hour plus whatever else I want to do Make it easy for myself. Now. Here is the thing if I don't show up at seven o'clock for the study session. I Don't have the rope anymore. Okay, I Know that if I don't show up the option of doing it later on that's that's gone, right? You've thrown that rope away That doesn't exist. So I either show up at seven o'clock and study or I don't and The consequences much like Batman. His consequence was he would die Right, he'd fall without the rope Yours is your biggest fear comes true and your biggest fear is that you won't study so after procrastinating the bit the fear comes true and How it comes true is you said yourself like I'm no longer allowed to study now for the rest of the evening Okay, so that is the one thing that changed me from being a procrastinator to an ex procrastinator now I never procrastinate. I literally never procrastinate work. And I mean that all in all honesty I haven't procrastinated in a work for years. Okay, and I've succeeded in I'm not bragging here anything But like I know I've accomplished all the goals. I wanted to in the academic side of things So when I say I'm gonna study, I know it's true because if I don't I Lose the right to study later on it's now or never. Okay, it's either do or die basically Now when you start trying this approach, this is what happened to me the first time I tried this the first day I procrastinated and I had the the Foresight or the I stuck to the plan basically and I said, you know what I procrastinated there. There is no later on so I'm not going to study enough for the rest of the day and The next day I showed up and I procrastinated again. I procrastinated it again and At that point Something changed in my mind a message had gone through to my subconscious mind that you know what this guy means business There are consequences if we don't show up when he says we should okay, and It might take you a few days. I might it might take you maybe three days But eventually if you follow through what I'm telling you here The message gets through to your mind that this person is to be taken seriously. Okay, so What happens then is that if you show up for the study session you do it and then However long it is then you set another one for yourself and the same thing applies and you just keep going with rolling start times Like that. Okay, and you as soon as you procrastinate once you're done for the day You can't lose with this approach to one of two things will happen you later show up and do a lot of work or You won't show up But you stop kidding yourself that you're gonna do later on and you have the rest of the evening Entirely free with no indecision in your mind It's the indecision that really takes all the energy out of you and it makes it very very stressful So to recap this is the approach. This is what I do. This is the biggest secret I have I set a time for myself to study if I don't show up for I Cannot do it later on the have to I can do a later option is totally gone for me The fear has come back Right and I control the fear I make the fear work for me now and You don't want to do it the other way around where you keep putting off the fear and the fear Comes at you like a freight train in about six months time in the form of an exam paper or a report card Okay, you want to use that fear for yourself. So That's it. That is the biggest life-changing insight I have From my time in university in college give that a go and I really would love to know what you think of that Okay, because trust me that one has changed my life. So have a go guys I'll be making more videos on this to explain it a bit more because I bet there'll be a lot of questions and people misunderstand In that so subscribe below for I think it's down here over here, whichever side the red bun Comment below let me know how it's going for you and like this one as well And I will talk to you guys soon