Jemma Spike

And if your goal is to get great grades, do it when it suits you best.

Here's another reason why I loved working and I love studying late.

And I guess it's kind of makes up tip number five.

It's because it was romantic.

And I believe like,

The more romantic or sentimental you make studying, the better you are at it.

You have to romanticize study.

You have to make it glamorous.

You have to make it charming.

I don't know what other episode I spoke about this and I'm pretty sure I did, but I loved working late and I loved thinking about like all the other great, all the other.

I just like thinking about like the great thinkers and writers who I admired, who'd be like up by the candlelight.

who'd be like diligently working back in the day and like that was so, I don't know, I love the intimacy of it and how dedicated it felt.

And I think it's important to find an image, a mental image of studying that is attractive to you and embody it when you are studying.

Some other examples, like I know people who like to imagine themselves as scholars, intellectuals, founders who are like working late, that's a common one, who like to imagine themselves as an artist when they're up early in the morning.

Whatever it takes to make you fall in love with the process of studying, not just the outcome, you've got to do it.

And that's another psychology hack for you.

It's actually called the effort paradox.

fall in love with working hard a lot of psychology will say we avoid effort because it's costly and we want to choose the path of least resistance but the more you pursue effort the more it feels innately valuable and the more it actually increases the value of the thing that you are working towards people

They value a goal more when they work really hard for it.

That's why we like IKEA furniture.