How I Trick My Brain into Wanting to Study (how to motivate yourself to work)

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Imagine if you could wake-up everyday excited about the hours of studying that's to come and maintain that feeling. Sounds impossible and to be honest you’re right. We just can't be happy about doing something we don't really want to. So, the only way to get us excited about studying is to trick our brains into actually wanting to study. This "want" or motivation to study will allow you to not only study for longer but importantly will allow you to be happy whilst you do it. So how can we go from totally disliking the idea of studying for hours to actually being excited by it? Well, by using an understanding of how our brain creates motivation. Scientifically speaking, motivation provides an activation and direction to our behaviour towards a reward or away from a negative punisher. So if you want to feel motivated and excited, there needs to be a reward at the end of the tunnel or a punisher chasing you from behind. In this video, I'll explain how I used the idea of rewards and punishers to trick my brain into wanting to study. I did this mainly by creating 3 levels of reward: short, medium and long-term. I unfortunately also used the concept of punishers, but this can be a very dangerous route, creating anxiety and worry if things don’t go to plan. And finally, I talk about the concept of habit-formation, which essentially bypasses the need for motivation. This can be a very powerful way of automating your day. #motivation #study #work #exam
Timestamps:
00:00 - Motivation
01:38 - Rewards
02:46 - Short-term
04:02 - Medium-term
05:33 - Long-term
07:05 - Punishers
08:18 - Habits
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Timestamps: 01:38 - Rewards 02:46 - Short-term 04:02 - Medium-term 05:33 - Long-term 07:05 - Punishers 08:18 - Habits

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I am a grade 9 student and studying in a generation full of gadgets is really distracting but after watching Dr.Shaene's video I got the motivation and now studying is so much easier and fun .Thank you for the great tips .

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[@DoctorShaene]

Thanks so much 🙌 Best of luck!

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An example 1. Lie about it to everyone 2. Everyone thinks i am smart and have high grades 3. studying so i dont get caught being stupid Note: works better when talking to new people XD

[@natural5546]

Lol interesting have you ever used this

[@spacey_ace_kid7504]

dude...this is me. like literally. who are you and why do you know my life story? edit: lie is an um..strong word, i just like to call it "manifesting my reality before it happens" xD

[@abdullah-hi6cf]

I thought I was the only one who did this???!??! literally all I do is boast about how good my study techniques are to my friends, and how many hours i study a day etc but then it actually brings me to get the work done almost all of the time. Everyone needs to try this lol

[@luguzman199]

I'm so glad I found this video! I have final exams in less than 5 days, and I was kind of having a crisis and I felt like I wasn't doing enough for studying, but this helped me a lot. Thank you!

[@DoctorShaene]

Best of luck!

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WoW am actually really impressed by the high quality of this video and the informations in it are soo well picked and helpful ! . the sad part is that you are soo underrated ... you should have much more followers .... am really glad for ur work on this video mate , it can help a lot of people including me u just earn a new subscriber keep going my brother

[@pg8220]

Discipline equals freedom ;)

[@lojain-nasser3017]

I would as well suggest to find a way to enjoy the studying process it self, by either trying to see the subject in a more interesting way, or also by remembering how you’re actually gonna need that information later on, either in your exams or in the real life.

[@Luke-jf1kc]

Thank you man your videos have changed my life.

[@lewislee9201]

Thank-you for this useful and concise overview, that is not just applicable to studying.

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very good advices! thanks for the video. I already recommended it to my friends from uni.

[@afsanehafi]

Thanks for your amazing and useful video😊 I hope I can become motivated like you with these tips.

[@Mahejabeenqazi]

Thank you, Dr. Shaene.

[@charaspiro8495]

This has already helped me so much I'm currently making a schedule for tomorrow thank you

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Thank you so much, I really needed this now!

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holy shit this is so helpful, thank you so much man for making this video !!!

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The only problems I daily goals are that there is no consequences if you don't finish the study task. Saying this as a 9rh grader

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Such high quality videos and practical, valuable advice! I hope you get the recognition you deserve soon mate!!

[@DoctorShaene]

Thanks so much 🙌 You’re too kind!

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You are soo motivating Giving us a idea when we are lagging in our actions Thanks from a neet aspirant🖤

[@joannapearson6545]

Watching this at 1am in the morning and realising there’s no way I’m going to be able to get up at 6am to study 😅

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You have commented this 8hrs ago , so if yo7 read this or get a notification whenever you wake up carpe diem buddy!

[@vanessa.nguyen]

Thank you, this is definitely going to be a big help for me. Let's see how I go.

[@DoctorShaene]

Glad it was helpful!

[@newmagic106]

Positive thinking and reward makes your brain .. to relax. So to use motivation to do things you don’t want, fear is more effective yo use. Its also gives the energy to do things. Fear or anger. Shame. This is why all these “negativity” were used to control humanity very effectively. And to make positivity work for you as motivation you have to do double work. 1. To think, 2. redirect thinking patterns, 3. Do it more often. 4. Keep your attention current in this tunnel.. 5. Work with all negative self criticism. 6. Talk to yourself like it’s somebody else.. so on.. Sooooo.. its alot of work.. six time more.. But, one good thing coming from positive.. its expand your consciousness.

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Tysm for the video, funny thing about mid award is I did imagine all about after the committee stuff I can do and they decided to start the next committee the day after the exam :')

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keep on going man thx for video

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Love how you changed your top more then those pages

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4:39-my thoughts exactly

[@ayanrayan7567]

thank you a lot I am in grade 5 and I was trying to think about study but I did not want to so thanks for the timings

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Thank u 🙏

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You gained my respect

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Hello, i just found your channel and started watching your videos. They are so motivating and i truly enjoy watching them. Keep up with this amazing work!! Lots of love🥰💗

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Much love ♥

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Any suggestions for executive function issues, where motivation is high, but something like adhd paralysis stops forward motion?

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Great video !

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Thanks!

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Love your channel !! Keep up the good work !! I just was wondering what app/software you might of used to write out your schedule?

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my second video is out now!

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this was useful ty

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Glad it helped

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whould u mind to tell me what your food diet is?

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Really good contents. Keep it up!!

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Insane!

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I really be out here having nothing to reward myself with 😂😭😭😭

[@vaibhavparihar7265]

I'm in a weird situation, tomorrow is my last exam and I don't feel like studying I did pretty well on other exams but now my brain is not accepting any information from the book even tho it's my best scoring subject but still can't bring myself to study. I thought it might help watching some motivation videos but I guess not. don't know why my mind is ready to fail.

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your videos have benefited me a lot. Thereby for people like you,i love God.

[@DoctorShaene]

You're welcome!!

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Can you make video of how you make your videos animation?

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Hi I’m a y10 student and I’m very interested in doing med, I’m predicted mainly sixes but I don’t think it’s high enough- do u have any tips for answering long exam questions? Ur videos are rly inspirational and your techniques have been working rly well for me, thanks 🙌

[@DoctorShaene]

Thanks so much! That’s so nice to hear those tips are working for you! I highly recommend using the testing effect and doing a lot more past paper questions. Looking at the mark schemes and getting a feel for what’s the difference between what you write and what the model answer is. Then bridging the gap between the 2!

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Where is the link of video which can motivate me to watch this video 💀

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you know this video is good, when there are 1k likes and only 7 dislikes

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My brain watching this ahhhh so u tryin' to trick me 🙂

[@DoctorShaene]

Haha

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Im still out of order when i try to study... I want to study but i often get scared to study Is there any solutions ?

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Life changing video!! Now there is no excuse😂

[@DoctorShaene]

Haha amazing! The science speaks for itself 🙌 Best of luck!

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so helpful!

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Thanks so much!

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Hello Sir IAM Indian IAM 10 year

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Note to self: Trick your brain to study for happiness

[@warisahmed1800]

How do you create a study timetable or what app do you use

[@DoctorShaene]

Piece of paper works fine, Apple reminders is pretty good and I quite like Notion these days. Eventually the routine will become a habit and so you won’t actually need any timetable to tell you and you’ll automatically know

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Actually I like to study about nutrition and neuroscience

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[@aryanram02]

man the editing is TOO flashy and has tooo many sound effects to a point where its kinda annoying...

[@hackaholic01]

Our Brain is too smart, if you define short term rewards, you brain will trick you to time pass those study hours and skip to rewards, There is no other way Guys Wake up, If you want to do sometime , JUst do it and keep doing it. This is the only way. There is no shortcut. you dont like it, keep doing it. if your are: Sad, Keep doing it Frustrated, Keep doing it Angry, Keep doing it Not motivated, Keep doing it not interested, Keep doing it JUST DO IT AND KEEP DOING IT again, again and again...........................................................................

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Ur so smart ughh😂😫😂😫

[@DoctorShaene]

Haha you're too kind

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If your watching this video, stop smoking weed right now. I promise you it will dismotivate you rn in the long term. I recently quit vaping carts and I found new motivations in studying

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Why do you have such low veiws and subs i thought you might have around 1 million subs+ and veiws

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same

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Just listen to music

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Jesus Christ is the only way to heaven repent of your sin before its too late Father God and Jesus Christ loves you and has hopes and plans for your future have a great day or night God bless you John 3 16 for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life Jesus Christ is the way the truth and the life