WEBVTT 0 00:00.900 --> 00:01.600 Hey. 1 00:01.740 --> 00:09.120 Well done for completing yet another module. These modules are getting longer and longer and more and more 2 00:09.120 --> 00:11.190 hard, and harder and harder. 3 00:11.220 --> 00:15.430 So by getting here you've really shown what you're made of. 4 00:15.450 --> 00:17.490 Not everybody makes it this far. 5 00:18.420 --> 00:26.130 Now, while you're here, I want to share with you something that I've noticed about how I procrastinate. 6 00:26.160 --> 00:27.930 I'm sure everybody procrastinates, 7 00:27.950 --> 00:40.640 but one of the things that really struck me is, when I used to have to revise or study for med school, 8 00:40.650 --> 00:48.780 one of the things I always did is, before I sat down to actually do the work, I wanted to prepare the 9 00:48.780 --> 00:51.800 scene, I wanted to tidy my desk, 10 00:51.810 --> 01:00.780 I wanted to sharpen my pencils, to make myself a cup of tea, maybe have like a little snack ready. And 11 01:01.500 --> 01:07.500 what I realized is that I was just basically delaying like the actual work. 12 01:07.860 --> 01:12.370 And it was just another form of procrastination. 13 01:12.570 --> 01:20.250 And once I realized that, it also made me think that, you know, by doing all of these little things, like 14 01:20.490 --> 01:29.070 feeding into your perfectionism or your OCD or getting yourself a snack beforehand or just like all 15 01:29.070 --> 01:37.440 of this prep before doing the actual work, it was always like I was rewarding myself for procrastinating 16 01:37.950 --> 01:40.870 and procrastination. 17 01:41.130 --> 01:45.240 There's a lot of studies have been done on it and it shows like it's almost like addiction. 18 01:45.240 --> 01:45.660 It's a. 19 01:45.960 --> 01:56.320 It works so similarly in the human brain to an addiction, in the sense that like, you know, the more you 20 01:56.320 --> 02:03.180 feed it the stronger it gets, the more dependent you become on procrastinating. 21 02:03.190 --> 02:06.620 So one of the best ways is to just not feed it. 22 02:06.670 --> 02:13.070 Imagine it as this sort of monster that you have to really break away from. 23 02:13.150 --> 02:20.290 So ever since I realized that, what I did, instead of sort of doing all of these little things beforehand, 24 02:20.350 --> 02:22.300 is I just got started. 25 02:22.300 --> 02:31.000 And once I was done, once I did the work that I wanted to do, be it revising for an hour or studying something 26 02:31.000 --> 02:31.870 for an hour, 27 02:32.300 --> 02:39.100 it’s at that point that I reward myself, that I get myself a snack or I find something 28 02:39.100 --> 02:41.360 fun to do for like five minutes. 29 02:41.470 --> 02:51.400 And this really helped me like beat procrastination. And one of the ways that you can try is something 30 02:51.400 --> 02:52.940 called the Pomodoro Technique. 31 02:52.990 --> 02:56.560 So you set the timer for twenty five minutes. 32 02:56.560 --> 03:03.370 You do the tasks that you're meant to do and then after that time when the timer rings you have a five 33 03:03.370 --> 03:04.040 minute break. 34 03:04.090 --> 03:06.250 And in that five minutes you can do whatever it is you want, 35 03:06.370 --> 03:15.310 right, like you can, you know, like go for a walk, go for a snack, look outside the window, go on like your 36 03:15.310 --> 03:18.580 computer, search for something. 37 03:18.580 --> 03:24.190 And the point is that you're delaying all of these fiddly things or all of these little itty bitty things 38 03:24.310 --> 03:25.870 for that five minutes. 39 03:25.870 --> 03:32.170 So while you're working you're fully focused on working and while you're having a break you're fully 40 03:32.170 --> 03:35.590 focused on having a really relaxing break. 41 03:35.770 --> 03:37.120 So have a go of that. 42 03:37.210 --> 03:44.490 If you've never tried the Pomodoro Technique, it's pretty pretty big for me anyways. 43 03:44.890 --> 03:47.590 And I'm really curious how it works out for you. 44 03:47.890 --> 03:54.580 So either let me know in the Q & As, or let me know on Twitter, @yu_angela, how it's 45 03:54.580 --> 03:58.090 going for you and what are some of your tricks as well. 46 03:58.090 --> 03:59.230 I'm curious to know. 47 03:59.560 --> 04:04.680 So keep going in the course and I will be silently cheering for you here.