to school season coming make sure you're prepared with tools like grammarly go to URL_TOKEN mike and maddie to sign up for a free account and if you want to make use of those extra features upgrade to grammarly premium for NUMBER_TOKEN off to save time and work more efficiently the second rule is have a plan or plan to procrastinate this rule is all about how to avoid procrastination see the science behind procrastination is pretty simple it's basically you trying to persuade your brain to do something your brain is like a dog okay if you propose something that's fun like going for a walk or playing fetch then your dog is going to get pumped up excited and most importantly motivated okay your brain is going to think yes that makes sense and your brain is going to release chemicals to motivate you to carry out that plan if you propose something that's not so fun like taking a bath or going to the vet then your dog is going to think that that plan sucks okay so to avoid procrastination you have to persuade your brain with a good plan that makes sense so the same goes for studying or doing any kind of work if you tell your brain i need to pull an all-nighter and study the hell out of my chemistry textbook that sounds like a pretty sucky plan and it's really vague of course you're gonna procrastinate but if you say i'm gonna go to the library i'm gonna do active recall on chapters three four and five for two hours then go home and get some sleep and have energy for tomorrow that sounds like a good plan your brain is going to bless you with motivation and you're gonna get it done and the third rule is do less and do better my freshman year in college i took NUMBER_TOKEN units in the u.s that's a lot okay i was excited to hit the ground running i packed my schedule and i joined three clubs and my hands were full okay i felt like my life was just constantly rush hour right when i finished my homework for one class i'd have to think about the next one and run off to the next i was getting pretty burnt out so what did i decide to do i took NUMBER_TOKEN units during my sophomore year it was a bad year i had to sacrifice everything friends family hobbies relationships just to keep my grades it didn't work okay it was not sustainable i felt like crap i didn't want to learn anymore and i hated school but then the best thing happened to me during my junior year during my third year in college my counselor told me that i had so many ap credits carry over from high school that i could practically graduate at that point and i wasn't allowed to take more than like NUMBER_TOKEN to NUMBER_TOKEN units so what did i do i did less and i felt better i took about NUMBER_TOKEN units a year after that maybe about one to two difficult classes and the rest more laid back and this completely changed my life i was able to actually immerse myself in my work and appreciate what i was learning i wasn't constantly running to the next thing i rediscovered my passion for science and medicine and when i interviewed for medical schools it really showed that i loved what i was doing i think that had i interviewed when i was all stressed and burnt out i probably wouldn't
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