0:00 so you've gone through school without needing to study and now things are getting tougher and now that things are tougher you don't know what to do you don't know what study routine you should do you don't know what apps or tools to use you don't even know which study methods work for you and since you didn't really have to study hard in school you don't really know what you're doing now and you don't really know what you need to do to study well don't worry you're not cooked yet because in this video I will literally teach you everything on how to study so before we study on how to actually study first you will need a structure now a structure essentially allows you to have a reliable system for you to follow whenever you're studying and the problem with people who never actually needed to study in their school is that they've
0:46 never really built the study routine or the system throughout their school so if you're watching this then first of all good job and congratulations you watching this means that you want to take studying seriously and that you are not going to be relying on your stock knowledge and you will start building your study routine and practicing it so how do we start locking in how do we build our structure now I'm going to be honest I know that you're watching this right now because you are motivated to lock in for school which is good any source of motivation is good but I'm going to splash some truth serum on you this short-lived boost of motivation is less reliable than the toilets in the public gas stations it's just not reliable if you really want to take this
1:32 seriously then you will have to start with the why why are you doing this to yourself starting with a simple why will get you a base Foundation to why you want to move forward with this trust me if you do want to lock in with school motivation is just not enough and it doesn't mean that you get the same free time that you had so once you found your reason why then it's going to be just straight up discipline at this point you will have to start having the discipline to set time every day to study to dedicate some of your energy for the day to build your study habit I don't want to sound like your typical self-help motivational grw but if you don't have a drive and discipline for this then don't even bother if you really want to lock in for school you will really have to
2:17 sacrifice a few things first before getting your footing onto this whole setting system now note that I'm not talking about giving up the things you like doing for an eternity of course for a sustainable solution I still enjoy the things I like doing and it's important that since we're playing the long game you we should not give up the things we like however since we're talking about changing our behavior for us to be more studious then absolutely prepare for a bit of change in lifestyle that doesn't necessarily mean to be a bad thing but just prepare for change so once you accepted the fact that there will be changes in your lifestyle and that you will need to have drive and grit it's time to move on to the first actionable step now this is probably the most effective way to lock in no we are not talking talking about being super driven or being super motivated while yes it's
3:03 important building an action system is way more consistent and that we can follow every day for us to achieve our goals if you guys are even somewhat into self-help videos then you know that systems are so much better than motivation because they are something that do not require feelings or motivation which is a fleeting resource instead systems are actions regardless of how you're feeling so if you're ever in your low days it doesn't matter it doesn't affect your flow of things as much as relying on motivation so how do we build our own system first we are going to decide on what applications or mediums that you'll be using when you're studying and the first decision you'll have to choose is whether or not you're going to go digital or analog now there are certain advantages to either however in this time and age I really do
3:50 recommend just switching over to digital now since it's just more convenient however that doesn't mean you have to fully cut off analog setting if you're comfortable with writing notes on your notebook then continue doing that however in terms of tracking your notes your quizzes and everything I do recommend doing everything digitally now there are a lot of apps that you can use when it comes to your studying however since I'll be teaching you how to study here's a general system that I recommend that everyone can follow and that structure I recommend is the notes testing directory structure basically have a dedicated app for your notes and for testing and for directory notes is pretty much where you will store your information that you will be in taking now this will not be your main study method usually notes are seen as something that isn't really effective
4:36 however this will be a good gaug on visualizing on what you know and if ever you do need to get information that's not found on your syllabus or textbooks your notes are there for you testing is pretty much the app that you'll be using to test yourself now generally for testing it can vary a lot now some people generally test themselves from Reading their textbooks or PDFs some people require applications like me for example I use the app which is a flashcard app and it's pretty much used by most medical students and language Learners and some people can even test themselves by using pre-made exam papers I would be discussing that more in depth but I do have a system for a way to test myself and finally your directory system will be a list of applications or resources where you can access whenever
5:21 you need them these could be websites applications or books where you can access certain resources textbooks calculated services and more now in terms of scheduling for my exams and tracking to-do lists I personally don't like having the hassle of having too many apps and this is where akif flow comes in essentially akif flow is a calendar and to-do list allinone with app Integrations meaning that you don't have to stop using Google Calendar or notion or slack or anything you can all integrate onto this allinone too list platform which is great because you don't have to switch to different apps all the time all you have to do is open aif Flow to access them all the UI is really cool you have this calendar Center and you have your to-do list on the left over there and there's even routines I'll be showing guys how I
6:08 pretty much schedule my day or my week using ACU flow maybe you guys can learn a thing or two about how I schedule my week so yeah here is a little demo for me everyone so this is currently what you would see when you open ACU flow and I'll give you guys a little bit of a tour around this app so let's get straight into it so before we begin I just want to show you the Integrations you can have with the this app as you can see there's a lot of them and I just currently have two but if you're using pretty much everything else just feel free to add them here but yeah going to aif flow if you open this app you will have two views so this is your calendar view this is where I sync my Google Calendar I've planned for the next few days as you can see and on the left we have are your main tasks right here so there are different categories so you have inbox tasks du today upcoming which
6:56 has a really cool view of showing your tasks for the month for the week and for the days so right now I'm working on this current task right here change your life with deep work and finally you can click all tasks to check your tasks now you'll notice that some tasks have this outline and that's because if you go to your tasks you can actually assign a priority for your tasks so you have low medium high or goal which is really cool you can even have projects and tags for your tasks projects with different emojis and colors to make it all seamless and and after that you can even check your statistics of your schedule and your tasks and the to-dos that you've been working on and when you're done you can hit here and click daily shutdown and this is basically a routine
7:41 for you to shut down your day and to prepare for the next one so I can rate it good here I can drag my to-do lists on this calendar right here and I plan for the next day which is this over here and once I'm done I can click ready to shut down and it will show me that I'm done with the day and it's time to move on what's cool is that you can even plan for the week which is I don't know something that I have never really tried but if you guys are into that then there's a feature for that as well so if you guys want to try akif flow just head down to the link in the description I've included the link there and you can try akif flow for yourself anyway back to the video now trust me this will be the hardest and longest process because you're finding your way to study however
8:27 this will be the most rewarding you will be testing different methods and different routines to see which really fits for you and this may be the most demotivating phase because you will feel like you just don't know what you're doing and you might feel like you're doing worse academically however I'm here to tell you that you're on the right track and because you're finding what works for you the way to get to that point is by experimenting and finding your way of studying trust me I've tried so many things in my life and it only came to a point where I realized that some certain study methods really just don't work as effective as others depending on some people so in this step I recommend looking online to check your options when it comes to study methods as there are a lot of study methods out there and just try each of them and see how it goes now for my current personal study method there are three
9:13 applications in my system notion obsidian and an notion is pretty much my database where I keep my resources and directories for different websites for different needs I even have a university tracker there to track my subjects and everything obsidian is pretty much I put my notes and where I convert everything into flashcards and finally Anki is the testing flash card app that I use in order to test me and for me to remember a long term using the system I was able to score a 90 plus score on my major general fishology exam that's why I can confidently say that the system works for me so how the heck do you find your system right away well the short answer is you don't the only way you can find your study system that works for you is
9:58 if you keep on experimenting however it can be very daunting when looking at the internet there's so much resources out there and there isn't really one method that fits for all so how do you start building from scratch then well the simple answer is to just follow someone's system you can follow my system or you can watch a study YouTuber to literally copy and take inspiration from their system you can literally follow my system of notion obsidian an and see if it works for you remember you're here to build your system you're not here to get it right away so don't feel Rush when finding a perfect system you will know when your system is perfect when you feel the most comfortable and your grades is reflected from that system now finally the last thing you need to do is to develop your study routine your study routine is what will get you from I feel like studying
10:44 to I'm going to study today it's what will help you achieve your consistent study habit so how does one create a study routine well I explained it more in depth on my how to study even when you're Tire video but essentially your goal is to schedule a study based on the level energy you have for the day for example for me I usually have the highest energy during the middle of the day right after class that's why my routine consists of leaving class and just heading straight to workpace and just getting straight into studying that's why I do most of my studying during the midday rather than having it in the morning or in the night essentially try to have a specific place and time for you to study so that over time your habit will build up anyway I hope you guys enjoyed today's video and I hope you got a little bit of direction for your stud habit this is Kook and
11:31 I'll see you in another video don't forget to drink your water bye [Music]
