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5 BEST Ways to Make Yourself Study When You Have ZERO Motivation _ Scientifically Proven · Motivation study

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  Speaker 1: Why are you staring at a blank screen again when
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  Speaker 1: you know you've got exams coming? You've got an assignment
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  Speaker 1: that is due and it might not be tomorrow. It
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  Speaker 1: might be next week, but you know you need to
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  Speaker 1: get it done. What is it that is stopping you?
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  Speaker 1: And then you end up watching another YouTube video. You
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  Speaker 1: end up watching another TV show. You end up procrastinating again. Days,
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  Speaker 1: weeks go by and you wonder, when is this cycle
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  Speaker 1: ever going to end? And how do you break out
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  Speaker 1: of it? And not just once, not just for tomorrow,
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  Speaker 1: for good. In today's video, we're going to have an intervention.
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  Speaker 1: By the end of this video, you are going to
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  Speaker 1: commit to changing things for good. I'm going to share
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  Speaker 1: with you the five best ways to study when you
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  Speaker 1: have zero motivation to, when you don't feel like it.
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  Speaker 1: And the first thing you need to do is go inside,
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  Speaker 1: not outside, for that motivation, for that drive, the energy
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  Speaker 1: that you need. And it starts with something you've heard
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  Speaker 1: many people say before. Remind yourself of why. Why are
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  Speaker 1: you taking that course? Why are you going to school?
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  Speaker 1: I know you have to, but what is this for?
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  Speaker 1: Are you struggling because of school or are you struggling
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  Speaker 1: for something? One of these is a victim mindset and
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  Speaker 1: one of these is a champion mindset. Emotions are an
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  Speaker 1: essential part of executing any plan. Knowing something isn't enough.
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  Speaker 1: You need to make yourself feel inspired. And that's not
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  Speaker 1: going to come from somebody outside. It's not going to
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  Speaker 1: come from me. One of the most surprising things about motivation,
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  Speaker 1: a common misconception that we have is that it often
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  Speaker 1: comes after starting a behavior, not before. So this is
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  Speaker 1: the problem. You're waiting for motivation to study when you
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  Speaker 1: need to study to get motivated. You need to go
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  Speaker 1: inside your own mind and find the active inspiration to
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  Speaker 1: move you forward. Your mind is ruled by two different systems.
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  Speaker 1: The rational mind, and the emotional mind. And both of
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  Speaker 1: them compete for control. Your rational mind, it wants to
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  Speaker 1: change something. It wants to study. It wants you to
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  Speaker 1: achieve your potential in life. The emotional mind, it loves
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  Speaker 1: the comfort. It loves the safety. It loves doing the
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  Speaker 1: fun things, the procrastinating things. Every behavior has a positive
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  Speaker 1: intention behind it. So stop waiting for motivation. And ask yourself,
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  Speaker 1: why does this matter? And it doesn't have to be
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  Speaker 1: something noble or good. It could just be, I need
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  Speaker 1: to get a good grade so I can get into
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  Speaker 1: this university, so I can get this job, so I
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  Speaker 1: can make some money. But what is it that's going
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  Speaker 1: to compel you to make some moves? The second thing
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  Speaker 1: you need to remember, start looking for the best environment possible.
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  Speaker 1: I promise you, it's going to be way easier and
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  Speaker 1: way more effective. Environment is the invisible hand that shapes
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  Speaker 1: your behavior. You might think that your habits are a
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  Speaker 1: product only of your motivation, your talent, your willpower, your effort,
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  Speaker 1: but your personal characteristics, your intentions sometimes get trumped by
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  Speaker 1: the environment around you. And this is nothing new. It's
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  Speaker 1: been known for 80 years. In 1936, psychologist Kurt Lewin,
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  Speaker 1: he wrote a simple equation that effectively summarized human behavior.
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  Speaker 1: And it goes like this. P equals F brackets P E.
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  Speaker 1: This equation is basically saying behavior is the result of
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  Speaker 1: that person in an environment. So think about it. When
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  Speaker 1: you're sat in an exam, you're at the front of
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  Speaker 1: the hall or the classroom and the teacher is standing
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  Speaker 1: over you and 30 other students are sitting in silence,
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  Speaker 1: writing away. Do you worry about motivation? No. Are you motivated? Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Do whatever you need to to design for your laziness.
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  Speaker 1: Go to productive environments. Structure the physical and virtual space
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  Speaker 1: around you so that you make good choices by default.
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  Speaker 1: It's not about how motivated you are. It's about being
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  Speaker 1: in the right place and designing for that laziness. The motivation,
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  Speaker 1: it'll find you later. The next tip is state change.
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  Speaker 1: When you have no motivation, what is it like? Just
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  Speaker 1: pay attention to your body. How is it moving? What
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  Speaker 1: are your eyes focusing on? How many tabs do you
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  Speaker 1: have open right now? How many other things are you
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  Speaker 1: trying to do? What you need to do is change
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  Speaker 1: your emotional state. Your mind and your body, they're interconnected.
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  Speaker 1: When your body gets tired after a long day, your
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  Speaker 1: mind gets tired. When you haven't eaten, your body is
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  Speaker 1: craving more calories. Your mind finds it hard to focus.
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  Speaker 1: And an easy way to change the way that you
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  Speaker 1: feel in an instant so that you get motivated again
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  Speaker 1: is to change your physical state. Just notice what your
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  Speaker 1: breathing is like when you're motivated, when you're in flow
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  Speaker 1: versus when you're distracted. There's several ways you can do this.
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  Speaker 1: The first one is go for a nine minute walk.
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  Speaker 1: Spend time with your loved ones. Talk about your motivation
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  Speaker 1: levels with someone. Do some Wim Hof breathing. play an instrument,
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  Speaker 1: take a long, warm bath or shower. Because this gets
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  Speaker 1: you into a relaxed state of mind, which is important
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  Speaker 1: to get you in the right frame of mind, the
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  Speaker 1: right focus. And it's only when your mind is at
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  Speaker 1: ease that those alpha waves start rippling through your brain.
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  Speaker 1: And you're more likely to look inwards, to introspect and think,
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  Speaker 1: this is why I need to get this done. This
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  Speaker 1: is why I need to focus. Imagine what that will
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  Speaker 1: be like. And you already know this is intuitively true.
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  Speaker 1: Why else do you have most of your best ideas
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  Speaker 1: while you're on the bus, on the train, when you're
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  Speaker 1: in the shower? You have no distractions around you. There's
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  Speaker 1: nothing you're trying to solve or fix or do. It's
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  Speaker 1: just one focus. Relaxing. Ease creates and urgency destroys. Tip
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  Speaker 1: number four. Think negatively. There's always people advising you to
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  Speaker 1: follow the law of attraction, to think positively and envisage
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  Speaker 1: your success. But there's pros and cons to everything. So
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  Speaker 1: it's important to think what could go wrong. If you
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  Speaker 1: sit here doing nothing while you're listening to me, the
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  Speaker 1: clock is ticking. You have less time now than you
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  Speaker 1: did before. Do you feel motivated now? Instead of a
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  Speaker 1: vision board, create a worst case scenario, absolute failure board.
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  Speaker 1: Go to your kitchen, throw all the junk food out
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  Speaker 1: the window, burn it and go do a three hour workout.
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  Speaker 1: Because sometimes you need a jumpstart. Sometimes you need to
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  Speaker 1: take massive action to get you moving. And this is
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  Speaker 1: an idea I got from one of the world's best minds,
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  Speaker 1: a guy called Chris Hadfield, who was an astronaut. for
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  Speaker 1: 21 years and he only spent six months in space.
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  Speaker 1: So what was he doing the rest of the time?
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  Speaker 1: He was thinking negatively. Every single thing that could go wrong,
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  Speaker 1: he was planning, he was preparing, he was remembering what
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  Speaker 1: exactly he needed to do for every scenario. You can
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  Speaker 1: call it negative thinking, but it's productive and it works.
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  Speaker 1: Once you've understood all of the potential risks and you've
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  Speaker 1: prepared against them, there is no more fear, just motivation.
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  Speaker 1: And the final tip, set up a non-negotiable agreement. Call
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  Speaker 1: your friend and tell them, if I don't do my
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  Speaker 1: assignment by next week, I'll give you £ 100. This is
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  Speaker 1: known as a commitment device, because if you commit to nothing,
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  Speaker 1: you are going to be distracted by everything. It's called
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  Speaker 1: hyperbolic discounting. It's a fancy way of saying we overvalue
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  Speaker 1: the short run, relative to the long run so if
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  Speaker 1: i give you two similar rewards you will show a
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  Speaker 1: preference for the one that you can have now rather
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  Speaker 1: than later let me give you some practical examples it's
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  Speaker 1: obvious do you sit and watch tv or do you
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  Speaker 1: go out for a run in the cold Do you
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  Speaker 1: grab the fruit salad or the cheesecake like everyone else
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  Speaker 1: for dessert? All of you know what's good right now
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  Speaker 1: isn't necessarily good in the long run. And commitment devices
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  Speaker 1: like the non-negotiable agreement, they change this up so that
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  Speaker 1: choosing what feels good in the short run, not doing
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  Speaker 1: the task you need to, not studying, it gets more costly.
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  Speaker 1: And in addition, you have to set a concrete goal
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  Speaker 1: instead of saying, I'm going to lose some weight this year.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to do some more studying this year. You
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  Speaker 1: have to say something like, I will spend two hours
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  Speaker 1: every day after school in the library, focusing on my
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  Speaker 1: maths module that I'm weak on. You get what you
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  Speaker 1: focus on in life. And if you don't know what
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  Speaker 1: you need to focus on, if you don't commit to something,
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  Speaker 1: you are doomed to fail and be distracted. Take it serious.
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  Speaker 1: Remind yourself, why are you doing this? Why does this
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  Speaker 1: even matter? Put yourself first. in environments that factor in
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  Speaker 1: your failure, where you know you're not going to feel
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  Speaker 1: like it, but you're at the library anyway, you're at
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  Speaker 1: your study session anyway. Change your state, go for a walk,
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  Speaker 1: go for a warm shower or bath, do whatever you
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  Speaker 1: need to. Think negatively about the consequences of your behavior.
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  Speaker 1: And the final thing is set up a non-negotiable agreement. Now,
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  Speaker 1: for those of you who want to take things further,
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  Speaker 1: if you want to find out what your purpose is
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  Speaker 1: in life, how to stop falling victim to procrastination and
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  Speaker 1: how to consistently stay calm and composed in any situation.
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  Speaker 1: and learn the methods and techniques to help you create
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  Speaker 1: your most meaningful life. Peace.