Jemma Spike

And at two hours, I'd be like, I'm ready.

But I would force myself to do that other hour because then I would get the reward.

And obviously, it was my money.

Like, I could open it at any time, but it would, like, really motivate me to just, like, push to that third hour.

And I would obviously have breaks in between, like, I'd go to the bathroom.

I wasn't, like, sitting there with, like, those metal prongs, like, opening my eyes.

Like, I would let myself get up and go around, but...

I wasn't allowed to leave the library, or I wasn't allowed to go back to my dorm before those three hours were done, or the next three hours after that, because I couldn't open the envelope.

Which, again, super strange.

Tell me if you do this, I don't know anybody else who does this, but it worked.

Okay, I don't know what tip we are up to here.

But next, another big psychology hack that's very simple but very necessary is eliminate all distractions.

Do not believe that you can study if your phone is right next to you.

I used to use this self-control website blocker.

I think I literally still have it on my computer.

I would also give my... Me and my friends, we would give each other our phones and put them in our bags so they couldn't access them and give them back when we were...

kind of ready to go.

Anything to keep a distraction away from your desk or away from your study space is crucial.

I cannot stress enough how much you need to be doing this, no matter how good you think your discipline is.

We really do like to believe that discipline is like a personality trait, that some people are just more motivated or motivated enough to be able to sit there with their phone face down and not touch it.