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Oh thank god, I lost motivation and when you posted this- I immediately became a 7’5 billionaire athlete.

'Taking breaks makes you productive!' *finishes one question for math* OK! Time to go to KZfaq for 5 hours!

'The more motivated you are, the more work you do, and the more work you do, the more motivation you get'. Got it thanks!

This man is born to make our life easy, actually

It has been 48hrs since I discovered this youtube channel, and I have already begun having strawberries + eggs for breakfast, going for jogs, and making motivational study plans. What the actual f***..........

Classical brit move, wake up unmotivated by morning, and has colonized half of the world by noon.

"It get easier. Everyday it gets a little bit easier. But you gotta do it everyday, that's the hard part. But it does get easier". Somehow this advice from BoJack Horseman cartoon hits me so hard, every time i lose my motivation i always read this quote again 😂

i fucking spent 6 hours on making a to-do list app, but i can't take out 6 minutes to work on my actual projects

To be frank, South Korea is kinda on a Dystopian speedrun when it comes to forcing their children to study and get to a good school and university at any cost. The amount of pressure these children go through, isn't all that related to "Motivation" and "Drive", but rather to live upto the insane expectation their family and academia have from the students. They have to study even with less sleep, through sickness because that's the overall culture that's been formed in the schools. The children burns out, the private schools and private coaching centers (which they attend after finishing school in the evening) keep making money. South Korea has probably the highest rate of Suicide amongst it's young population (School and College students and young people in general). Being disciplined is fine and desire to change your life for better is very good. But let's not overdo it to the point that being insanely disciplined even at the cost of being crazy becomes the social norm in schools and workplaces. Nothing good is gonna come out of it. Well, we are already quite close to that speedrun in the US compared to other countries in Europe.

Finally! A self improvement video that doesn't say the same 10 thing like the other KZfaqrs say

spent a long while staring at the wall like “oh. the reason i don’t get assignments done reliably is because i’ve begun to rely on the existential dread motivating me last minute to get it done an hour before due date. yeah that’s not healthy, i need discipline and a time limit”

The GradeAUnderA impression was amazing

it feels weird being early to an "easy, actually" video but i am not complaining. this also comes in at the perfect time because i am currently undergoing a summer course & need this ... THANK YOU !!!!

This is way better than Ali Abdaal's entire channel

video ideas: Quitting social media is easy, actually Becoming happy is easy, actually Making people like you is easy, actually Living a good life is easy, actually

This dude is lowkey one of the best channels I’ve come across. Very helpful and interesting info in convenient video format.

Are we just going to ignore the based British impression 😂 Actually comedy gold

I actually think that this one in a month way of posting videos is very good because you can make: - better quality videos - don't have to force yourself to come up with ideas - you can polish the video to make it better because of the time.

getting rid of addictions, easy actually would be a banger vid

THE LOCATION ONE! It can be really hard to study and work out at home but if you go to a designated place for those things - library and gym - it will motivate you to get whatever you need done. I’ve always done this and it works tremendously

a good hack i use almost all the time, is having a to do list and adding tasks I've already done to it. example, if i have school work to complete at home, but i completed some minor tasks at school ill add them to my to do list just to cross them off and gain motivation that way. also another thing that helps is to just start with the smallest tasks and gradually i wont want to do anything else because I'm already in a flow state

Just as a side note. Sleep is important. Don't do what south koreans do. You can be an expert in lots of stuff by also spending 8 hours a day instead of 18 hours. Plus, most south koreans do it with the purpose of pleasing their family/teachers. If you want to be good at something do it because you want to do it, not because others want you to do it.

I think one of the biggest solutions I’ve found helpful is when you have for instance hw u have to do, and u really wanna get on ur phone, just sit there at ur desk without ur phone. u don’t even have to do the work, but just don’t do anything especially not getting on ur phone. Eventually you’ll “want” to do work, or at least feel less less motivated to do it. and ofc like everything it takes time and patience, with bumps all over the road

Damn sponsor already, congratulations on the very quick success man deserves it.

Because of the videos you post, I made entire essays in my notes just because of how helpful your videos are. Thank you for helping us youngsters and I hope you'll get motivated and post more helpful videos!

As a Korean high school dropout the intro caught me off guard, yes they indeed do not study the whole 18 hours except for a few percentage of students who aren’t humans 👍

5:26 oh my god the Grade A Under A reference you’ve sent me

you know this guy is a lifesaver if he is a stick man appreciator

this channel's videos directly go to the point. These never do the things like beating around the bush.I got motivated just by watching these videos lol.Thank you for existing!

This explains why the gym solves my procrastination. By doing something really hard like the gym at the start of my day, I not only kickstart the motivation work cycle, but also everything else like schoolwork seems smaller in comparison to a hour and a half workout taking every muscle to failure.

great video, but i’m begging you, as a brit, please never EVER do a video called: british accents are easy, actually!

I was thinking about the reasons why I can't selp-discipline myself and do the things I desire the most. I was trying to figure out what motivates me, what discourages me, when I am most invested in my work etc. This video was like godsend to me. I really appreciate the work you do. Thank you so much.

Somehow this man drawing some stick figures and explaining dieting is one of the best videos I have ever seen.

This is slowly turning into my favorite channel, its literally uploading exactly what Im looking for when I need it the most

I swear I’ve been trying to get work done for so long and nothing has worked for me. This has worked for me and I could not be more grateful

This video is good for most people, but doesnt mention that the work -> motivation -> work cycle does not apply when you have adhd and finishing work does not cause your brain to produce dopamine thus you dont get motivation for work and thus cycle is broken.

Conolating a planet is easy, actually 🗣️🙏🔥‼️🔥‼️🔥💯‼️🔥💯‼️🔥

I like this channel as it has no noisy background songs, only focus on the topic, some humor and it is indeed easy, actually. Keep on the good work .

THANK YOU SO MUCHH, I'VE BEEN HAVING A HARD TIME FINDING A WAY TO MAKE MYSELF DO MY STUDIES EVEN WHEN I'M UNMOTIVATED. OHH YOU DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH YOU'VE HELPED MEEEEE

im going to apply every video youve ever made to my life and become giga chad

summer break just started probably the worst time for me for you to upload this lol

This video totally resumes what I do. Once you grasp the habit you will do it automatically. Also, an important thing to keep in mind is adaptability. You don't know what will happen tomorrow, as soon as you learn problem solving and be able to mould your schedule to inconveniences you will be more flexible, less anxious and more efficient in the long run.

this is one of the most useful videos i have ever seen about productivity it literal changed my whole life im crying rfr

Grade A Under A Mentioned!!! 🗣️💯🔥

You know I'm going through a nasty breakup and I really needed this, thank you.

I like to add as the first to-do list item something like "organize and plan the work", so I always start by something I know how to do and while breaking down tasks into smaller bits makes it looks easier

I like your voice it sounds incredibly chill and relaxed but at the same time very empathic

"it doesn't matter, though, cuz it's fun" lmao such a nice piece of advice about how to deal with 6:51 these kinds of awkward situations

5:22 the British accent 😭

This is such a good video. I sometimes feel unmotivated and spend a whole day doing nothing productive. I relate to your video a lot and I'll try to do what you said in the video. Thank you very much.

Everyone needs a friend like you

Hahaha loved the shortform shoutout 😂

oh thank goodness a new easy, actually video. I was actually contemplating suicide by hanging before this video was uploaded. The drought of good KZfaq content was getting too much for me. I couldn't enjoy being with my family because I had to check if easy, actually had uploaded. Every time when I saw that there was no new video, I broke down in tears and wondered why the world would play such cruel tricks on me. Now, I can rest easy for the next 8 minutes and 7 seconds of my life, before the withdrawals begin again. Thank you easy, actually for saving my life.

This video is beyond helpful! Every second of it serioulsy matters. Thank You. During watchtime I literally cleaned my room, because you made me realize I needed doing something small, to do something big. I chose to trash some small crumbled papers and here I am with a clean room now.

Literally found your channel and was mid-binging your old videos when this one dropped, cheers

god tier channel

Babe, wake up, new easy actually just dropped!

this came at the most perfect time ever, 3 final exams tomorrow, day after and day after that & I have not studied, this has lowkey changed my life

Dang… this is the video I needed. My biggest problem I have with myself is my inability to stay on task and get motivated to do things I know are good for me. I get so stressed out with the what-ifs I often delay myself from working as hard as I should. Your channel is an inspiration, from the quirky yet simple art style to the catchy titles and down to earth explanations. The fact that you’ve done this all in less than a year is amazing, you even have a sponsorship! I hope with enough time I can get to that point too, in my own way. Cheers 🍻

going to the gym after taking a shower should be illegal

evidently i am breaking boundaries as an unproductive south korean oxford student rn lmao

One of my fav videos to rewatch. I fully support the once a month video thing, this video flows so well, even the ad segment. The Cambridge skit is funny asf too lol

One of the big things that this video doesn't take into account is... the rest of life. Like, living with family, or wanting to hang out with friends, or play video games, or even just having certain subjects we like a lot better than others. I can make a to-do list to work on all of my homework, and be super motivated about doing everything one at a time, but none of that matters when my parents tell me I have to start babysitting my younger siblings who always argue and tear up the house when my parents are gone

"turn off your phone and put it in another room" until i log into something and it asks me to use my phone to verify... :(

Making a procrastinator click on this video is easy, actually

The cycle of how I work: 1) Feel really motivated to do something 2) get's that task open 3) forget that is takes a while to do 4) Watch youtube while thinking about the consequences of not doing the task 5) Starts doing it again after a hour of procrastination 6) Get's distracted by some really fascinating niche topic and hobby 7) Spends another half hour going on reddit and Wikipedia to study such topic 8) I forget about the assignment and I think I am all done with my hw so I play video games for 1 hour 9) Realize the sudden deadline of said task and get 75% done 10) I say to myself I will get the 25% rest of the task done tomorrow 11)The cycle repeats

That GradeA impression tho 💀💀

I love this guy's channel, makes me feel like I can do whatever I want

This is one of the most brilliant channels I’ve ever seen. You literally solve all my problems 😅

When I came across this channel I thought it was already well established with like millions of subs and then I see this dude dropped in 5 months ago with only 500k. U deserve more subs

1:48 It's worth noting that this isn't true by itself. In fact, we're facing a crisis where people doing lots of work is causing depression --- the polar opposite of motivation. You need to have some sort of reward for the work, whether emotional or otherwise (such as knowledge you're getting closer to a goal you really care about). You also need a sort of "fear" for what would happen if you don't do the work. I've found that this is why it's so easy to be addicted to social media. I knew it made me dopamine to see videos, so in a sense I have that reward even when the video just makes me angry. But it wasn't until I took a nearly whole day's step back and realised there was also a lot of fear of missing out, especially with politics.

Yoooo i really needed this🗿

This guy genuinely produces some of the most helpful content I have ever seen on KZfaq. I think I am actually going to fix my productive from following some of these tips.

20 days left till my university entrance exam, your video is really helpful. It’s straight forward and easy to understand. Thank you, I really appreciate it!❤

can you make "become confident at talking is easy actually"

Can next video be on being rich is easy, acutally pls

I admire this guy he is like best coach of everything you can find on internet

I just want to say that I love the fact that you put a bar below to indicate how long until the sponsor was over.

"Getting work done motivates you to do more work". Yeah right buddy. You lost me on step1

Motivation won't get you anywhere. It's a temporary feeling that can make you productive for a short period of time, but once that motivation is gone, you'll just slack off and do nothing. You need the discipline to do things when you're least motivated, regardless of how you feel. This is just plain generic advice you're giving that won't really help people in the long-term. I'm not saying you have to ignore your feelings when you have to do important work to do, no matter how you feel, but there will be moments in your life, most of the time, when you just can't afford to run your life according to your level of motivation. You just have to do things whether you're motivated or not and once you're not motivated you're going to go downhill because you've got nothing to stand on as you were dependent on your motivation/feelings, unlike when you're disciplined because it's always beneficial even in the worst of times when it really matters. It's not like people should go to the gym or exercise depending on how motivated they are. When it's time to exercise, even if you don't feel like it (there will be many days and most days you won't feel like going to the gym because it's difficult), it's even more important to go and start because it will rewire you to be more disciplined despite having no motivation. It will always lead to something positive in all aspects of your life.

One of the best pieces of advice I have used is a done list. This is helpful to me because I like to use notion, an online platform, to organize my schoolwork. Since I don't have the tangible feeling of crossing it out on paper, i can click the box and drag it to the done list side. It's so nice to see your to do list get shorter and your done list get longer. But the biggest thing is to just do it. It can be anything, the task can be as small as you need since it will help you build up.

As someone with adhd who has watched hundreds of hours of tricks for work, discipline, and motivation; this is probably the best collection of tricks that ACTUALLY work. Like these are all the important and actionable things I picked out from all that time researching over years. Not sure how many people realize this is a gold mine

nothing is easy, actually. the burden of existence is a crushing weight which we all must bear until we no longer can

bro released this at 12 am xd

My cycle looked different: Work -> anxiety -> distraction -> more anxiety -> more distraction etc. rinse and repeat for a few years and you'll end up with depression. I am thankful that I actually figured out that there was something wrong with me and that I got help even though it took me way longer to reach out for help than I would have liked. What actually helped me was to start being honest with myself. I now track how much I actually do and use two to do lists. One for the easy tasks and one for the hard tasks so that whenever I lack the motivation to do the hard tasks I can just go to the easy tasks and do those. Sure, I won't ever do all my hard tasks but I will do a lot more than nothing.

Reality is we Indians,koreans,japanese work way more time & are way more smart than Westerners what i've understood is that whenever we don't feel like studying we just say ok sit on table, study for 15 mins take break again repeat it and we become motivated after these few sessions. So,motivation is backed by action, action isn't backed by motivation.

Very good video! Thanks for not making it shorter or longer that it needs to be. I'm not distracted with the phone... I usually get distracted with the computer I'm working with (with things that feel productive but aren't). I know I can block stuff, but this is only a minor inconvenience and very easy to unblock...

This channel popped up as I’m quoting MJ, trying to workout, and getting my shit together. I personally pray whenever I feel bad thoughts or emotions and let the prayers work it out. Thank you for the information :)

Love your vids! Thankfully you're a newer channel so binging all of them only took an hour or two. Would love a vid on how to get better sleep/a better sleep schedule, and maybe another vid on how to break habits/start good habits. Seriously you must be putting crack in these videos because you're a magician at simplifying things and making them seem super doable!

This literally found me when i needed it. I’m during finals week and CRUMBLING.

Yes brother, your videos doesn't count as distraction instead they help change our lives for the better.

I have exams in 4 days and have really been struggling to grind study. You’re a lifesaver dude

its weird that how much motivation to do lists give, it really changed my life.

This is one of the best educational channels on youtube.

You are the most PRACTICAL man I've ever know

I was having breakfast, getting ready for a volleyball match, and found this video. Thank you!

Thanks mate, this video is perfectly on time as I got an exam and a crafts project on 2 more days and I've been procrastinating

I'm glad i found this channel, even tho there isn't much video, i learn a lot that everything is easy :D

your videos are so hilarious (the british accent bit lol) but at the same time i fell like i’ve just read 10 motivational books and i actually WANT to work today, that’s mental