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Hello, YouTube! Today I'm talking about being productive and doing things. Or not, as the case may be.
I like being productive, it makes me feel good about myself.
It makes me feel I'veaccomplished something
but I just can't do it. I end up browsing tumblr, watching YouTube and reading
articles on Wikipedia, or something
and I never get anywhere
with my life, I never get anything done
I can never just do housework or even do revision for exams that are the
next day, even though i'm interested in the subject. My most recent physics exam
I spent
the afternoon before the exam looking on Wikipedia about the large hadron
collider. Being
not productive, or in my case my case anti-productive
is a curse. Right now I'm in the middle of study leave. "Study leave." "Stuuuuuuuudddyyy leeeaavee"
Which is, basically,
sit around home; look at the internet a bit; play my guitar, watch TV. Then the night before the
exam pull out a revision guide, flick through it a bit and then PANIC.
and then don't get any revision done because you are panicking too much. You'd think I'd learn from that.
I've taken about
Nine/ten different exams over the last two years that are not mock exams -
actual
exams that means something. Every single time I take an exam
I end up
not revising before until it's too late. Occaisionally I'll have one day when I
start start revising from the start, and somehow, it works.
But, most the time
It's do nothing. People always say "Do half an hour of soemthing you like, then a long time of
being productive. That never works! 'Cause you don't like being productive! There's no point in
listening to that advice, att all, in my opinion
It really should be
a long time of doing
whatever you enjoy doing;
and much shorter amounts of time,
you spend doing that, you spend doing
things you need to do.
uh... things that are going to advance your life and things that are going to make it easier.
life easier. If you really dislike doing those things, why do people
think
that you're going to spend majority of the time doing them just for a little bit of
a reward. What teachers will always say at schools is
"Do twenty minutes of revision
and ten minutes to do nothing or watching TV listening." How can you watch ten
minutes of television? Each program at the very least lasts twenty minutes.
That's something teachers need to learn. Well, going on the internet?
You can do it for ten minutes,
but no one can do that.
No one has the will power! this is exactly how everyone I know browses the internet
if they have something to do
"Just a couple of videos today, not many"
"uurghh..."
"One more video..."
"Just one more..."
There's not a single person
who has the ability to not just keep watching videos too not just keep
reading articles, or reading blog posts or looking at gifs. Do the things you enjoy doing
and then spend a little bit of doing it.
'Cause your mind will think "I have spent a lot of time doing things I enjoy doing
doing things aren't going to advance my
day forward." Cause that will make you happy and then when it comes from some needing to do those other things,
you'll think
"Oh, I haven't done any of this stuff yet,
I should probably get on and do it. I'm not to just about to go and end this video
on an apology: I imagine at least half of you should be doing homework/revision.
vision