Jemma Spike

Because we have to work hard for it.

Because there's a personal investment.

The things we put effort into, yeah, like furniture we assemble or like a cake we make ourself, you know, it feels more meaningful and valuable than an identical thing that requires no effort.

effort creates meaning which is more powerful than motivation you don't start studying because you love it you start studying because you're because you've invested effort and because that feels important and so then the meaning follows the meaning and the motivation follows effort not the other way around

Does that make sense?

You can read the paper.

I think it's literally just called The Effort Paradox from 2018, if you want to understand this better.

But effort creates meaning, not motivation.

It's one of the best things I read when I was studying when I was at university.

It's basically another way of saying, again, like, fall in love with hard work and pursue consistency.

Basically, it's another way of saying...

consistency matters and consistency works but it's just saying that um in a different way i guess let me move on to tip number seven i think this was my most unhinged study tip i used to pay myself to study i'm going to explain this but i knew from high school psychology that our brains respond to reward and regular positive enforcement so when i would get paid or specifically when i would get tips when i was working at the hawaiian bar or when i was working at the steak restaurant

I would have these envelopes in my university desk drawer, and I would put $20 bills, $5 bills, $10 bills in these envelopes, and I wouldn't label them.

I wouldn't know which had which.

And every time I went to study, I would bring a single envelope with me.

And only when I'd done a certain number of hours would I be allowed

open it and I would be allowed to spend whatever money was in there or like add it to my wallet because I didn't know how much money was in there it kind of also tapped into principles of intermittent reinforcement or random reinforcement as well and let me just say like it worked it truly truly worked so so well like it was I was basically bribing myself normally by like the time I

I think I would give it to myself after three hours.

Normally, I would have done two hours and I'd be really hungry or really bored and I'd want a snack.

And my university had this little basic grocery store.