Try using this trick for 7 days and message me personally and let me know if this worked for you.

Using this trick you will go from being a lazy person to a high performer and you will be able to achieve all your goals and will also feel happy and satisfied while doing so.

This is a completely science based technique to make your life better which I have figured out from my very own experience.

We all want to achieve our goals in life, but to achieve them we need to put in the work.

BUT!

But, but , but!

When you get to work, work for a few hours, days or weeks after a while you will start feeling:

1. Less motivated.
2. Less driven to do the work.
3. Loose interest in pursuing your goals.

I have been in a similar cycle, rather than just saying you should overcome these things, lets learn the science behind why we feel less driven after working for a while.

To understand why this happens, I’ve analysed my own behaviour and I’ve analysed the behaviour of others who are driven, disciplined 365 days a year.

Here is how it works:

1. You are inspired by something and start working .
2. You work, everything is going great, you feel good.
3. You work for hours straight, you feel on top of the world because not only are you working but you are also feeling good because of it.
4. By feeling good, your brain is generating happy chemicals to make you feel good.
5. These happy chemicals associate working towards your goal to happiness which means that the more you work the better your feel.
6. After a while, you get mentally exhausted, but still you feel good as you have completed a lot of work.

Now this is where most people FU*K UP!

7. At this point as you are tired, you will take a break which is actually a good thing.

8. As this is your break time, you decide to surf the internet, browse social media, watch a YouTube video.

9. Although there is nothing wrong in doing so, but these activities provide a lot more “feel good” chemicals to your brain than those which you get from working/ studying hard.

Now your brain knows that:

Unit of feel good chemicals gained by YouTube/Netflix etc >(greater than) Unit of feel good chemicals gained by working/studying.

Which means that your mind now knows that it can attain a much higher level of happiness from social media/ Netflix/ YouTube than working hard.

Hence your mind will now be always inclined more towards these activities and you won't be driven to work hard.

Some people completely FU*K this up using other activities like watching porn or consuming alcohol/ nicotine which produce a lot more units of feel good chemicals as compared to what you get by working/studying.

So what's the ninja technique:

Stop doing other activities that provide a sudden spike of feel good chemicals in your brain.

Make your work the only source to get those feel good chemicals.

This way your mind will be automatically programmed and driven to do the work which will be actually beneficial and will take you to your results.

Make a list of all the unproductive things which release the “feel good” chemicals and stop doing them immediately.

These things might include.

1. Surfing social media.
2. YouTube videos.
3. Porn.
4. Eating junk food.
5. Smoking/ Alcohol.
6. Binge watching TV series.

Replace them with more activities that produce the same “feel good” chemical, such activities would be:

1. Working/studying mindfully.
2. Working out.
3. Meditating.

Warning:

Trying this technique will be super hard and boring on the first day as our mind is already wired and addicted to a lot of high “brain chemicals” inducing things.

In the initial few days you will still feel a lot lazier and unmotivated while working but if you continue this habit your mind will start to rewire itself.

If you follow this technique and if it works for you then definitely let me know by sending me a message.

 -Saurav Sharma

I love my parents so much that I will do whatever they want me to do......

Qualities among successful people

Write a journal to document your progress

Write a journal to document your progress: You do have a passbook to keep track at transactions of your money at the bank. What would happen if the bank stops keeping a track of your money and expenses? Wont that be a terrible idea? So why not keep track of where you are in life right now, what are you doing to improve and how much have you improved over a period of time ? To actually improve yourself, you do need a tracking system in place to track your progress on a daily basis. This system does not need to be complex, you just need to maintain a journal which records things you have done today to improve yourself. For example, you may write things down like “1. Reduced social media usage by 2 hours”, “2. Started learning XYZ skill, completed 1 topic” “3. Walked for 1Km ”. At the end of every week or every month, you can now do a self-review to see how much you have accomplished for the entire month. You can calculate the total hours you have put into learning a new skill, total kilo meters you walked, or total time saved for the entire month which you would otherwise have spent on social media. You can use the same journal for comparing your month-to-month progress as well. For example, in the past month if you had walked 30km then in the next month walking even 35km would be considered as a good progress.

-Saurav Sharma

I had the same question about......

I had the same question about more than a decade ago when I wondered what separates the class toppers from an average student like me.

Luckily I had the chance to be around a topper and observe him and his actions.

What I learned from a class topper.

While I was in school I was an average student. I studied enough to score well but never topped the class.

However when I was in std 8th, I had a chance to sit besides a class topper.

Here is what I observed and learned from him.

1. He had a tremendous zeal to score well, the intensity with which he studied showed up on his face.
2. The amount of enthusiasm this guy had to tackle the exam was mind blowing. If you ever see him revising before an exam, you would think that he was a maniac. Compared to him I was like Meh… its just an exam, let’s write the paper and get over with it.
3. He honestly prepared till the last moment, he made sure that no answer is left unrevised. He genuinely immersed himself into books. Not like others who study before exam just to show off.
4. His enthusiasm was contagious, you wont believe that after sitting besides him for an exam even I started studying with more zeal and more passion. I became genuinely interested in studies. This is the very reason you should surround yourself with great people, we end up becoming a bit like them.
5. As soon as the exam ended, the very next moment he would start preparing for the next one. He knew the value of every minute and utilised well.
6. Most importantly he didn’t consider this as work or something he has to do but he genuinely enjoyed studying and being a class topper.
7. Was he talented and had more IQ than others? I have no idea, but I can assure you one thing that he put a lot more effort to study the same topic than others did. If he was really talented and had a god gifted photographic memory then he wouldn’t have had to put so much effort into learning/memorising things.
8. Was he lucky? He had the same set of Questions to answer as others did. Although he might have had other advantages like a favourable and conducive study environment at home, better coaching however there were plenty others who had much more advantages than him.

These were my key takeaways form him which I follow to this day:

1. It’s all about how bad you want it. If you are competing with someone else for a thing then the one who gets it is the one who wants it the most.
2. There is no substitute to hard work, even if you are super talented.
3. Enthusiasm matters a lot, if you are not enthusiastic or excited about something it will be much harder to succeed at it,
4. Being genuine always pays, always be genuine to you work and it will reward you back.
5. Enthusiasm and positive energy is contagious and it shows up in your work. So is negative energy. Hence one must do all the possible things to surround yourself with positive and energetic people and cut out all the people from your life who are inherently negative.
6. Value time, it is your most precious resource and hence put it to good use.
7. Luck is definitely a factor, however not as much as you think it is. It does have an impact but the effect of ones luck only amplifies when you put in the hard work.

-Saurav Sharma

Don’t be a slave to your smartphone, instead make it your slave

Don’t be a slave to your smartphone, instead make it your slave

Most people in todays world have become a slave to their smartphones.

Notification bell rings, they pick up their phone saying that “Ill watch this one video and then I’ll get to work”. Even before they know it, they have spent an entire hour watching other recommended videos.

Remember, it’s now machines vs humans. Social media algorithms have gotten so good that they know what exactly you like. In fact they know more about you than yourself and hence they know how to keep you hooked.

Instead of being a slave your your phone, make it your slave.

Don’t let it suck value out of you, instead you suck the value out of it.

Use apps like reminders to remind you of the important stuff you need to do, use the phone to talk and network with people.

Download apps like Kindle, Audible read and listen to a ton of books.

Use apps to remind you to drink water and take a walk every hour so that you stay healthy.

There are hundreds of ways you can use your smartphone to optimize your life and to your own advantage, but only when you actually stop being a slave to it.

You have paid a hefty price for your device, extract every drop of value out of it.

-Saurav Sharma

Most people don’t know the principle of............

Most people don’t know the principle of energy management.

You might have heard and practice time management but one of the most underrated resource is your energy.

Just like time, energy is a finite resource and you only have a finite amount of it every day.

Hence it is important to spend it wisely because just like money, if you make a bad investment of energy you will get bad returns.

There are three aspects of energy management.

1. Conserving energy.
2. Enhancing energy.
3. Directing excess energy into something meaningful.

Conserving energy:

You might not realise it but you are draining tons of valuable energy by doing certain things like browsing social media or watching YouTube videos.

Here are certain ways you can conserve your energy.

1. Stop browsing social media endlessly, if you want to use social media use it at the end of the day after your have made a good investment of your energy into meaningful activities like working on your goals.
2. Avoid arguing with people, it is a big energy drain when you get into arguments with people on the internet and in real life.
3. Avoid negative people at all costs, people who talk about negative things all the time when you meet them. Your mind is a garden, don’t let these people turn it into a dumping yard.
4. If there is something which bothers you at the current moment, write it on a piece of paper and say to yourself that you will deal with it later. When you are constantly worried about something while you are working or studying it will drain a lot of your energy.
5. Stop thinking about things you cant change, not everything can be your control so there is no point in draining your energy thinking about something you cant control.
6. Work on one task at a time, multitasking and context switching are again huge energy drainers. We waste a lot of time when we switch from doing one task to other.
7. Pro tip: Treat your energy like money and spend it wisely. Would you pay money to browse a dumb social networking site which offers you no value ? If not then why would you waste your energy which is much valuable then money ?

Enhancing your energy:

There are certain things you can do to enhance your vital energy, these things are simple and can be done by almost anyone.

1. Improve your physical fitness, it has a huge impact on how you feel. You don’t have to become a bodybuilder or go to a gym to be fit. You can just walk / run for 30–40 minutes a day and do some pushups.
2. Have a good diet, your body is a vehicle and your food is your fuel. Would you put crappy fuel in your Mercedes ? If not then why would you put junk in your body? Stop eating junk food and eat healthy. Eating healthy does not mean you have to buy those expensive protein tubs. There are a lot of food items which are nutritious and yet cheap like groundnut, bananas, eggs etc. If you fuel your body well, it will produce more energy.
3. Take multi vitamins and mineral supplements, they are vital to your brain health and can enhance your performance a lot. You never know which vital vitamins or minerals your body lacs hence it is better to do a blood test once a year and visit a doctor. Don’t go for those expensive multivitamins which cost a fortune. Generic multivitamins at your local medical store are enough and they are affordable.
4. Taking a power nap is another great way to recharge your mind and body. If you feel tired and exhausted during the day, instead of using your phone better take a 20 minute nap. You will feel fresh and energised to work.

Directing excess energy into something meaningful:

By the end of the day we do have some excess energy.

You can spend it any any way you want but make sure that you don’t invest it into something which is counter-productive like watching TV or spending time watching dopamine inducing videos.

Bill Gates has this trampoline room built in his house so that his kids can spend their excess energy jumping all day.

The reason why it is important to spend this excess energy is to avoid its misuse.

When you have an energy built-up and it has nowhere to go, chances are we will misuse it.

Other things which you can do to spend this energy are:

1. Reading a book which will help you sleep better.
2. Working out at home or at a gym.
3. Going for a swim.
4. If you are into art, you can draw, write an article or a poem.

Once you get better at the above three things you will eventually have the energy to work on your goals and wont feel tired and lazy.

Plus when you have the energy to work on your goals and you are working towards it, you would feel naturally motivated and driven to work.

The reason why you are feeling low right now is because your body is signalling you to stop abusing all the energy you have and get things in order.

-Saurav Sharma

Life is Hard

Minimize the number of times you make decisions, every day

 Minimize the number of times you make decisions, every day

I’ve found this to be highly useful, but something few people talk about - largely because people don’t even realize they are doing it.

Decision making is one of our most mentally taxing activities and can add to undue stress. Most of us don’t realize how many decisions we end up making in a day, and it is an unnoticed drain on bodily resources.

We face decisions from the innocuous “what do I wear today?”, to the more pertinent “what do I do now?”, to the impactful “where do I take my life next?”. I have gone through these feelings of being frozen, and immobile, because you’re stuck with deciding what do next.

How do you minimize the number of decisions you make every day? You bunch together similar types of decisions in dedicated time slots.

How do you resolve “what do I wear today”? Spend 30 minutes once a week to decide, and organize your wardrobe. How do you resolve “what do I do now?”. Spend 60 minutes at the beginning of the week to decide, and put it on your calendar. How do you resolve “where do I take my life next”? Spend dedicated time once a quarter to meditate on this question.

This can be literally extended to everything you do. Should you reply to a just arrived email or not? Dedicate time every day to decide on email behaviour. Should you eat something or not? Decide at the beginning of the week. And so on.

What this allows us to do is become incredibly productive. We get focused on the action of the task, rather than the inaction of decision making. There are obviously decisions that need to be taken within a certain period of time, but those are few. The regular decisions go from being instinctive and emotional to being well thought out and objective.

-Aviral Bhatnagar

Average Student

ULTRALEARNING Book Summary || For Those Who Have Read The Book

 0-> Belief : That you can do it

1-> Metalearning : 

Why,What & How ?

Expert Interview

What : Concepts,Facts & Procedures

How : Benchmarking, Emphasize/Exclude , 5% to 10% of Total

2-> Focus :

Dont try to fix but Manage Procrastination & Distraction

Procrastination : Feeling of Pain / Uneasiness , 

Start Doing it For 5 min soon it will vanish

Distraction Source : Environment , Your Task & Mind

3-> Directness :

Spend a lot of time doing the thing you want to become good at.

*Project Based Learning

*Immersive Learning

*Flight Simulator Method

*The Overkill Approach

4-> Drill:

Attack your weakest point.

Identify the rate determining step and isolate and practice it.

The Direct-then-Drill Approach

Drill Ways :

*Time Slicing

*Cognitive Components

*Copycat

*Magnifying Glass Method

*Prerequisite Chaining

Mindful Drilling

5-> Retrieval:

The Testing Effect

Is Difficulty Desirable?

What  Should be retrieved?

How : 

*Flash Cards

*Free Recall

*The Question Book Method

*Self Generated Challenges

*Closed Book Learning

6-> Feedback :

What kind of Feedback do you need?

  *Outcome Feedback : Are you doing it wrong?

  *Informational Feedback : What are you doing wrong?

  *Corrective Feedback : How can you fix what you are doing wrong

How to improve Feedback ?

  *Noise Cancellation

  * Hitting the difficulty sweet spot

  *Metafeedback

  *High Intensity Rapid Feedback

7-> Retention : 

Ebinghaus Forgetting Curve

Hypothesis of forgetting :

*Decay

*Interference

*Forgotten Cues

How to prevent forgetting ?

*Spacing:Repeat to Remember

*Proceduralization : Automatic will endure

*Overlearning : Practice Beyond Perfect

*Mnemonics

8-> Intuition :

*Do not ask whether a statement is true until you know what it means

*Do not Give Up On Hard Problems Easily

*Prove things to understand them

*Start with a concrete example

*Don't Fool Yourself

* Work the problem step by step

9-> Experimentation

*Experiment with learning resources

*Experimenting with Technique

How :

*Copy & then Create

*Compare Methods Side by Side

*Introduce New Constraints

*Explore the Extremes

*Find Your Superpower in the Hybrid of Unrelated Skills

-Blog Author

Detailed Review of The Book

Mastering the Art of Learning: A Practical Guide

 

1. Belief: Trust Yourself to Succeed

   • Why It Matters: The belief that you can improve is the foundation of any learning journey. Without it, your efforts will be half-hearted.
   • Actionable Steps:
     • Write down past successes where you overcame challenges.
     • Create affirmations like, "I can learn this skill if I persist."
     • Surround yourself with stories of others who achieved similar goals.

2. Metalearning: Learn How to Learn

   • Why It Matters: Understanding the “map” of what you’re learning saves time and avoids wasted effort.
   • Actionable Steps:
     • Why: Reflect on the purpose of your learning. Is it to get a job, solve a problem, or create something?
     • What: Categorize your focus areas:
       • Concepts: What do you need to understand? (e.g., programming logic)
       • Facts: What must you memorize? (e.g., syntax rules)
       • Procedures: What do you need to practice? (e.g., coding exercises)
     • How: Research benchmarks—how experts approach it. Allocate 5-10% of your learning time to planning and refining your approach.

3. Focus: Manage Procrastination and Distractions

   • Why It Matters: Lack of focus leads to inefficiency and frustration.
   • Actionable Steps:
     • Procrastination:
       • Break inertia with the 5-Minute Rule: Commit to working for just 5 minutes—this often eliminates the initial resistance.
       • Visualize the task as already complete to reduce uneasiness.
     • Distractions:
       • Adjust your environment (e.g., work in a quiet space, block distracting websites).
       • Redefine your tasks (e.g., split a big task into smaller, actionable steps).
       • Calm your mind with techniques like mindfulness or a quick 2-minute breathing exercise.

4. Directness: Learn by Doing

   • Why It Matters: Skills are best learned in the environment where they’ll be used.
   • Actionable Steps:
     • Choose project-based learning: If learning a language, build a chatbot. If learning writing, start a blog.
     • Use immersive methods: If learning French, try speaking only French for a day.
     • Apply the Overkill Approach: Set a goal slightly harder than what’s necessary. For example, write a 10,000-line program when only 2,000 are required.

5. Drill: Sharpen Your Weakest Points

   • Why It Matters: Addressing weaknesses accelerates progress.
   • Actionable Steps:
     • Identify your “rate-determining step”—what’s holding you back? (e.g., for guitar, finger transitions; for coding, debugging).
     • Try drills like:
       • Time Slicing: Dedicate short, focused sessions to practicing a single component.
       • Magnifying Glass Method: Deep dive into one aspect (e.g., practice only Python loops for 30 minutes).
       • Prerequisite Chaining: Ensure foundational skills are strong before advancing.

6. Retrieval: Strengthen Memory Through Practice

   • Why It Matters: Testing yourself reinforces knowledge better than rereading or reviewing.
   • Actionable Steps:
     • Use flashcards for facts or vocabulary.
     • Practice free recall: After learning, close your material and try to write down everything you remember.
     • Create a Question Book: Write questions as you study, and revisit them later.

7. Feedback: Improve with Purpose

   • Why It Matters: Feedback pinpoints mistakes and guides improvement.
   • Actionable Steps:
     • Seek outcome feedback: Are you succeeding or failing? (e.g., Did the code compile?)
     • Ask for informational feedback: What went wrong? (e.g., What caused the syntax error?)
     • Get corrective feedback: How can you improve? (e.g., Practice fixing common errors.)
     • Maximize feedback effectiveness by:
       • Hitting the “difficulty sweet spot”—not too easy, not too hard.
       • Asking for feedback early and often.
       • Using metafeedback: Evaluate if your feedback process is working.

8. Retention: Don’t Let Knowledge Fade

   • Why It Matters: Retention ensures you don’t waste time relearning.
   • Actionable Steps:
     • Use spaced repetition: Review material at increasing intervals.
     • Proceduralize: Turn skills into habits (e.g., practice scales daily for musicians).
     • Engage in overlearning: Practice beyond mastery to ensure permanence.
     • Use mnemonics: Create memory aids (e.g., acronyms, visualizations).

9. Intuition: Build Deep Understanding

   • Why It Matters: Intuition helps you tackle complex problems and innovate.
   • Actionable Steps:
     • Start with concrete examples before abstract concepts.
     • Work step by step: Break down problems into manageable parts.
     • Prove ideas to yourself: Test assumptions or solve examples to internalize concepts.

10. Experimentation: Innovate and Adapt

• Why It Matters: Experimentation uncovers new methods and accelerates learning.
• Actionable Steps:
• Try copying and then creating: Replicate a method, then tweak it to fit your needs.
• Compare techniques side by side to find what works best.
• Explore extremes: Push constraints (e.g., learn coding with only 100 lines).
• Hybridize unrelated skills: Combine unique abilities to discover a competitive edge.

Crisp Summary of the Book 

Break or Study ?

 I used to take a break from studies every few hours during my JEE preparation days, and I think that helped me immensely.

Every three-four hours, I used to take a break to read a novel for thirty minutes. And I used to play Badminton every evening for two hours. Both these activities provided me with a channel to release my stress and re-energize myself so that I could continue studying with full concentration.

JEE preparation is very tough, but studying all the time will not help. It is important to take regular breaks in between to ensure that the preparation is more effective.

At the same time, it is important to ensure that the breaks do not supersede the study duration. There is a very big difference between taking small breaks every few hours of studying, and studying for a small duration every few hours of break.

-Rohan Jain

Clearing JEE is Sign of Success ?

You will suck at...........

Golden Rules of Studying

 

1. Never Treat Classes as the ‘One-All-Be-All’ - The classes you visit are a place for you to review what you learned on your own beforehand. They will not give you all the information and thinking about it this way only leads to laziness.
2. Study Daily - Every day do a little bit. Start off right away when you get into the course or decide to study something and do something regardless of the day. Even if it is just 5 minutes.
3. Always be Straight-Forward and Honest with yourself - Either you know the content or you don’t. Either you can learn on your own or you can’t. Either you do not need help or you do. Be honest and direct with yourself and accurately address what it is you need to do. And be humble enough to ask for help when you need it.
1. Take Effective Breaks - You do not need a 2-hour lunch break and that movie is not helping you study. Be honest enough with yourself to take breaks that actually recharge you.
4. Keep Reflecting - You will never be able to be honest with yourself if you never look at what works and what doesn’t. Figure out what time of the day works best for you, how you can get most excited about things, and how you study best. Test out different things, reflect on them, and adjust as often as you need to to create an amazing study routine.
5. Never Replace something of a Higher Priority with something of a Lower Priority - Your studying does take priority at times. No, that means you cannot go out with your friends. But other times you will have studied too much. And yes, that means you should go out with your friends. Make sure you know what means the most to you and keep your priorities in line

Make The Subject Interesting................

 Get into the subject. Try to figure out why other people find the subject fun. Someone put this material into the curriculum because they loved it; if you can love it too, you will learn without memorizing, your time spent studying will be a joy.

Imagine your professor guiding your study. Ask, what do you think your professor thinks most important? Then spend time on that. Most of what you learn will be on your own, and the reason you have a professor in charge is because the professor can guide you. Spend most of your time on the important subjects. You may be wrong, but you’ll still be better off, since there is never enough time to study everything.

Why is this topic important? On every topic you study, ask that question. What about it is new? How does this contrast, if at all, to the other things I know? Most importantly, don’t just learn but also think.

Think about the subject even when not studying. Discuss with others. Make your study into a game; challenge your classmates as you are walking or eating with them. Doing this is far more important than are long study sessions. In fact, you probably can cut back on the amount of time you devote to study. Spending hour after hour can be a crutch, an excuse for being lazy and not actively thinking while you study. But—and this is important, think about the subject yourself when you are not “studying”.

Make sure you understand the material the first time, prior to your study sessions. Never put off thinking about it until the exam. If you do it early, you can ask questions to your professor, to your classmates, to yourself. You save enormous time by being ahead of the game. Read the material before the lecture, not afterwards. Yes, the lecture can make the material make sense, but if you read it first, you’ll be the student who asks the most thoughtful questions in class.

Take breaks in which you mentally think about what you have just studied. Don’t confuse time of study with depth of study. You can very likely reduce the hours you spend studying, if you recognize when you are drifting. If that happens, maybe you should stop studying for a few minutes, walk away, and just think about what you have learned.

Imagine that you are teaching this material to a friend who missed the lecture. How can you present it coherently and thoughtfully? Putting yourself in the shoes of the professor can be very effective in identifying the parts on which you are weak.

I didn’t know all this when I was an undergraduate. I picked it up over the years, and learned much of it from my better students. It’s all obvious advice, once you’ve heard it, but it often isn’t obvious to the student who is panicking over a class that seems too hard. But these are the key methods that I use now, as a retired professor who was writing a book (Now: The Physics of Time). These are the methods I use as I try to master the subject of nuclear waste, my latest project. I knew a lot, but needed my knowledge to be complete enough to ace the subject. Do you think that once you graduate college, your exams are over? If you are a physicist like me, then you are taking an exam every time you give a talk—the exam comes at the end, when people ask tough questions. I take an exam whenever I discuss an advanced topic with colleagues; they can tell how much I know and how much I don’t.

These study methods are not ones that you will use for classes alone; you will use them for your entire life, assuming your vocation is one that requires constant and continual learning.

-Richard Muller PhD in Physics, Former Professor in UC Berkeley

Can't Bring Yourself to Study Everyday ? Here's the Reason..........

Because you hate what you’re studying.

People today feel resistance or boredom towards what they’re doing and they think they have a “procrastination” problem.

Procrastination really is a first-world luxury problem to have.

There are two situations where you’ll never procrastinate:

1. Life or death
2. Your true passion

Someone is holding your daughter hostage and you need to wire $10,000 to set her free?

You are not going to procrastinate.

You are going to move mountains to free your daughter.

Or just say you need to do something that makes you feel complete, makes you feel rewarded, puts a smile on your face.

You are not going to put that off, are you?

If you can’t bring yourself to study, it means one of two things:

1. It’s not important
2. You don’t like it

So ask yourself if this is really the life you want:

Trying to make yourself do unimportant and unexciting things.

You only have one life to live.

Spend it on the stuff that matters.

-Benjamin McEvoy

Bollywood

Discipline

I hated sleeping on time, going to the gym, eating right.

It felt very constraining. It seemed so much better to binge watch TV shows, sleep longer and eat whatever I liked. If I slept well one day, or went to the gym one day, or ate well one day, it didn’t really change anything.

But I also began to realize that my life was incredibly chaotic. I felt dissatisfied.

I should have been satisfied. After all, I was doing what I wanted to. It is then I began to realize that I was looking at things all wrong.

Doing things well for one day probably did not change anything. But one week, one month, one year might. I started a test experiment by just planning my days and fixing the time I slept and woke up.

Ironically, the “discipline” set me free.

I could do more in the same day. I felt like working out. My work productivity improved substantially. It felt a lot better, surprisingly.

By building habits and a rhythm to my life, I could do more. I didn’t have to convince myself to follow those habits, doing so made me feel better. Personal “discipline” is actually quite easy because you just feel so much better. Those who are now “addicted” to the gym will know what I mean.

All you need to do is be patient while building habits, and know it will make you feel better if you remain patient.

I now love sleeping on time, going to the gym, eating right.

  
 

-Aviral Bhatnagar

,IIM A '16 | IIT B '14
Genius ?