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Hey.
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Well done for completing yet another module. These modules are getting longer and longer and more and more
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hard, and harder and harder.
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So by getting here you've really shown what you're made of.
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Not everybody makes it this far.
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Now, while you're here, I want to share with you something that I've noticed about how I procrastinate.
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I'm sure everybody procrastinates,
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but one of the things that really struck me is, when I used to have to revise or study for med school,
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one of the things I always did is, before I sat down to actually do the work, I wanted to prepare the
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scene, I wanted to tidy my desk,
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I wanted to sharpen my pencils, to make myself a cup of tea, maybe have like a little snack ready. And
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what I realized is that I was just basically delaying like the actual work.
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And it was just another form of procrastination.
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And once I realized that, it also made me think that, you know, by doing all of these little things, like
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feeding into your perfectionism or your OCD or getting yourself a snack beforehand or just like all
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of this prep before doing the actual work, it was always like I was rewarding myself for procrastinating
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and procrastination.
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There's a lot of studies have been done on it and it shows like it's almost like addiction.
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It's a.
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It works so similarly in the human brain to an addiction, in the sense that like, you know, the more you
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feed it the stronger it gets, the more dependent you become on procrastinating.
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So one of the best ways is to just not feed it.
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Imagine it as this sort of monster that you have to really break away from.
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So ever since I realized that, what I did, instead of sort of doing all of these little things beforehand,
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is I just got started.
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And once I was done, once I did the work that I wanted to do, be it revising for an hour or studying something
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for an hour,
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it’s at that point that I reward myself, that I get myself a snack or I find something
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fun to do for like five minutes.
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And this really helped me like beat procrastination. And one of the ways that you can try is something
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called the Pomodoro Technique.
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So you set the timer for twenty five minutes.
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You do the tasks that you're meant to do and then after that time when the timer rings you have a five
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minute break.
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And in that five minutes you can do whatever it is you want,
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right, like you can, you know, like go for a walk, go for a snack, look outside the window, go on like your
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computer, search for something.
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And the point is that you're delaying all of these fiddly things or all of these little itty bitty things
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for that five minutes.
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So while you're working you're fully focused on working and while you're having a break you're fully
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focused on having a really relaxing break.
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So have a go of that.
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If you've never tried the Pomodoro Technique, it's pretty pretty big for me anyways.
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And I'm really curious how it works out for you.
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So either let me know in the Q & As, or let me know on Twitter, @yu_angela, how it's
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going for you and what are some of your tricks as well.
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I'm curious to know.
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So keep going in the course and I will be silently cheering for you here.
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