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Hey.

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Well done on

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completing yet another module.

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Now I want to talk to you about something that I find helps me with motivation.

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Now I know that as computer programmers we have this kind of reputation for not really wanting to interact

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with other humans but you know that doesn't have to be true right?

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And we can in fact interact with other humans.

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Let's say you're in a library where like everybody is doing their own thing and you don't have to talk to

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anybody.

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But the point I'm saying is that when you're working at home and you're all alone and you're trying

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to study through this thing it can get really hard.

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But if you're in a place where everybody else is working and you look up and you look at the intenseness

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to which everybody's working, it makes you want to work hard as well.

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So I find even though I've graduated from my university many years ago now, I have an alumni card which

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means I can still go back to the university library and I do that whenever I have to do something that

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I procrastinate a lot on.

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So if I have to do something difficult and when I'm at home I just keep passing it over

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when I'm at work

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I just can't really do it,

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I go to the university library and this is really really helpful.

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It's just like the exam time when everybody's studying really hard.

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It's like you know you feel inspired to work hard because you're kind of twiddling your thumbs while

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everybody else is studying really hard you feel kind of silly

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right?

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So see if you can find these opportunities where either you have a study buddy or if you have a local

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library that you can access where everybody's quiet and then working hard.

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See if you can try to use that to increase your own level of motivation and see if that helps you get

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further.

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But the key thing is keep going keep going keep going keep going keep going.