Here are some guides based on personal experience and empirical evidence on how to get the most out of your time. Hopefully, this frees up your time to live a meaningful life doing the things important to you.
Focus is something we all struggle with. It’s almost pointless knowing how to study if we can’t get ourselves to focus long enough to actually do it. So how do we actually get ourselves to focus so that we can study effectively for longer? Well, I scrutinised the study routine I designed for my second year exams that allowed me to study effectively for 12 hours a day, and distilled out the 5 principles behind its success.
“Free time is meant for nothing but Netflix and relaxation” is what we’ve convinced ourselves. And to be honest, it’s easy to see how we got here. We’ve worked super hard throughout the day and year, we deserve to not do nothing at all in our free-time. After all, isn’t that the whole point of free-time? Well, that attitude is exactly what I took for most of my student years, and it’s something I look back at and regret.
Earlier this year, Elon Musk became the richest man in the world with an estimated worth of $188 Billion USD. But just 10 years ago, his beloved car company Tesla was at the brink of collapse. So how did he turn it around and build such an influential presence? Well, he learnt what drives economies and businesses. The answer of course is people.