 Everybody wants to be more productive but we always fall short of time for doing things which we really want to do but is it really so that the work we want to do is too much and the time we have in our hand is too less. Let me tell you the general dictum says that if we do not have time to do something that means in reality we are actually avoiding doing it and we are just keeping it at the back of our mind and finding excuses to avoid that thing. So actually we always have time for things we actually want to work. So how to make that happen? Well the first thing is that you should tell your brain that whatever is important should be kept in front. Right? So you have to shuffle through all the thoughts, ideas and all the nonsense stuff which your brain is thinking to get that one thing which is most important for you to do today. Obviously that one thing can be many things like if you want to play a video game. Yes that is also one thing but that thing should be decided on the basis of the priority of your life where you want to be. So today you are somewhere and after 10 days after one month after one year where you want to be in your life. So that will decide the priority of the thing which you want to do today. Okay by the way there are so many things which we do daily and if we try to think about that are these things really in our priority list and why are we doing things what we will get to know is that these things can be classified into four major categories and it is very commonly used and maybe mentioned in so many videos at so many places that things can be classified as urgent and important access right. So if you consider things as whether they are important or not important and whether they are urgent or not urgent so there may be things which are neither urgent nor important. So obviously why to do such kind of things but we do such kind of things like watching TV, spending time on your phone these things are neither urgent nor important isn't it? Then there may be things which are urgent but not important. So for example when somebody is in job they have to make some document which may not be important for them but because they're in a job and they have been told by their bosses that this job has to get done so that becomes urgent. So they have to make time for such kind of job as well. Similarly for students it may be a call from their parents from their friends which they may be thinking that it is urgent isn't it? Then they need to talk to their parents anyways. So that is one example of such kind of task. Then there may be things which are urgent as well as very important. For example your exams are scheduled after one week or maybe after three days or mostly for students it is like tomorrow. So then the things which you are doing becomes urgent as well as important because you have to finish certain chapters and that particular day in a particular time right? There is no excuse of avoiding it anymore. And finally there are things which are not urgent but are very important and you know these are the things actually which are important for us for our goals in life but we keep them on a back burner because they are not important and they can there are so many things which can actually take their places. So we are constantly avoiding such things despite knowing that they are so important. Anyways my idea is that learning actually is about this particular component only where thing is not urgent but is very important because whenever we learn in urgency we are not actually learning. We are just shuffling the pages turning around and seeing the headings and what to write in the exam. We really don't learn when we do like that and urgency is one thing which interferes with learning. For learning you have to be really calm and then your mind will work as if it is actually exploring the stuff and going deep into the stuff. So first thing for time management and for learning better is to actually plan every day that what is one thing that you want to learn today or I would suggest you to do it one day before itself. So once you have identified the topic then what to do. Well you have to take a page I would suggest that maintain a diary and write it upfront on top of that put a date then write the topic which you have to cover. Fine now if it's a topic which you think which can be covered may probably in 30 minutes right then always spare 45 minutes for that. Then if it's a topic which you think will require two hours then always give a time of two and a half hours for such kind of topic because we are saying that there are certain things that are urgent but may not be important right but they keep coming in our lives right. So always put some spare time and secondly don't overdo right so if you are estimating that this topic is going to take two hours add a little bit more leisure in that so that if there are certain concepts in that particular topic which you get mixed up right. So even then you have some time to spare to actually grasp that concept and you don't feel like time is running and you have to complete this topic in that particular time only. Fine so that is the second thing which you have to do. Now third thing very important for time management. So suppose you are having classes from 9 o'clock in the morning to 4 o'clock so how much time do you actually have for reading. See if I return by 4.30 or maybe 5 o'clock to my hostel or wherever I am staying so I'll take a chunk of 6 o'clock to 8 o'clock for studying fine. Then I will add some break in between and then again I will put two hours for reading so we are having a study time of four hours fine. So what we will do is out of these slots which we have put for studying right so after identifying the slots in which we will be studying we put that most important topic in the slot which we think in that particular time I will be most productive and there will be hardly any disturbance during that time. Fine now suppose I put it in a slot of 6 to 8 p.m. Now what I do is I follow a Pomodoro technique for time management and for deep learning. So in this technique we study or work in time chunks of 25 to 30 minutes. So I put a timer for 30 minutes and in this 30 minutes I only read remember there should be no distraction if a call is coming you should not pick it up right and if by chance you feel that that call may be urgent you can pick it up but again you have to start from that time for continuous 30 minutes right. So for 30 minutes you study and then after 30 minutes you take a break of five minutes. Then again 30 minutes you study and again you take a break of five minutes and you can repeat this cycle for four sessions right. So each half an hour you are taking five minutes break and you are doing it for four sessions. For the beginners they can take it for three sessions or maybe two sessions as well and after two sessions they can add a little longer break 15 minutes ideally after four sessions you should add a longer break of 30 minutes fine. So you have to get your that topic done in that particular time of four sessions. So you have to decide on that topic such that you are able to cover in that four sessions. So this method of time management is known as time blocking. You are basically blocking a particular time of your day for studying really deep and when you will finish reading that you will understand that actually you feel so satisfied after finishing that one topic which you have decided to study and you have actually grasped that topic. So what are the things we discuss till now? Identify things which is not urgent but very important for you to do then identify the time slots in the day in which you will be doing your hard work. Then in these time slots in the most productive time fit in your most important activity and fourth follow the Pomodoro technique to actually do hard work and deep learning. Now you can do the similar stuff during your four hour session which you have divided after two hours you'll be taking a break of say suppose 30 minutes or 45 minutes also and then you can start with your next session of two hours of 25 minutes 25 minutes each. But I will suggest always mix different subjects for these different sessions. So in one session if you have studied physiology in other sessions pick anatomy and then for your week actually you can create a mix and match of different subjects like that. So one day for anatomy and physiology the next day for maybe biochemistry and anatomy depending on how much work you need on a particular subject so that will vary from person to person. Another important point is that you should revise the subject as well. So doing one deep learning may not be enough. Repeated revisions are highly recommended for keeping things in your memory for longer time. So how to do that? In this weekly schedule which you are making you should always include time for revision especially if you should do this revision every third day then it is very effective for remembering things. So this technique when you put the major things on a week that on which day which job will you do. So this weekly schedule which you make it is known as time badging. So each day you do time blocking when for the week you do a time badging. So these are the most important techniques of time management and for learning also and before we close just one very important thing I would like to say is that never ever multi-task when you are deep learning. If you are reading something in your book and then you pick up your phone it is very very counter productive. See actually a working memory can hold maximum four things at a time and I'm saying maximum for average people like me and you it can be only two things. So when we are reading there is sensory input coming from the books and there is some thinking input which is coming from our memory back into the working memory right. So we are doing lot of calculation lot of thinking work and if in the meantime if we pick up the phone then all this thinking work is inhibited by another signal which comes from another input. Just to make you understand I'll give one example that if I ask you to say a, b, c, d till j in one stretch you will say it very quickly right. And if I tell you to say the numbers 1 to 10 very quickly again you will do it like in no time. But now if I ask you to combine the two tasks and if I tell you to talk like a1, b2, c3 it will take some time. So if we add the time which you took when the tasks were done separately and the total time which you took when the tasks were done together we will see that in the next case the time is much much more because here we have multitask there is clashing of information in our brain. So please please never multitask. I hope these techniques will help you study better learn better and use your time in a much more effective way. Thank you.