just stuff studying in to cracks in your

schedule. Your schedule should be built

around studying. What does this mean? This

means have an exact set time during the

day when you start to study. For me, I

remember it was about 6:00 p.m. I would

always say to myself, okay 6:00 p.m. I

get back from school, I rest a little bit and then

at 6:00 p.m. that's my study time. It

starts. How long does it go? Well, that

depends on how much assignments and

homework I have but it would go for at

least an hour or two and sometimes would

go for four or five or six hours and it

would start at 6:00 and it would

usually end like around 9:00 or 10:00 or

or after that and it would vary but I

think what's really important to have

that starting time 6:00 no matter what

6:00.

Sit down and study. Open the books, sit

down

study. It doesn't have to be 6:00 for you

just come up with your own time and

you're doing this every single day.

What's important about this is that it

leads us to the next point which is you

have to get comfortable and you have to

slow yourself down in order to study

effectively. You can't rush the studying

process and one of the secrets that I

use is simply brute force. Right? A lot of

the issues as a student that I dealt

with, the things that I couldn't

understand I just brute forced them through

repetition and this repetition can take

time. Also, you know, you have to be

patient with yourself. Sometimes you're

not going to understand the problem

right off the bat so you just kind of

repeat it, repeat it, mull it over,

mull it over and that means sometimes

you, it takes you longer so instead of

finishing a quick little math assignment

in an hour, it might take you three hours

but that's worth it if you calm yourself

down. Get comfortable, slow yourself down

kind of open yourself to absorbing this

information, alright. This is where the

love it comes in. If you don't love it

and what you're doing is you're just

kind of rush studying through stuff just

to learn it, like cramming for an exam

that's just horrible. That's horrible

because all you're trying to do is

you're jumping, you're like a dog jumping

through hoops. That's basically what you

are when you're doing that because

you're saying yourself well I gotta pass

this exam in order to get into college, to

get grades, so my parents like me.

That's just hoops like a dog you're

jumping through. Don't do that. Instead

what you think about is like this. Okay this

subject matter is really fascinating. Let

me study more. Let me learn more. I want

to know how math interconnects with, with

history and I want to know how history

connects with science and I want to

know how this and this connect and I

want to know more depth about this thing

here. That's how you got to think. I don't

think there's any magic in being

successful and I'm not talking about

making a million dollars or a billion

dollars. I'm just talking about being

successful. I'm talking about being

successful in what you guys do at work. I

don't think there's any magic. You got to

work hard

you gotta respect the people around you

and you just gotta go. I've never met a

successful person that doesn't work hard.

There are two rules that I always adhere

to and that is to work hard and be brave

and I think the essence of hard work is

one that's pretty straightforward. It's

that you'll never be the best-looking

you'll never be the tallest, most

talented, most capable, you'll never have

the most money, there will always be

someone who's better at whatever you're

doing then what, than you are but you can

always be the hardest-working person in

the room and I think the hardest-working

person will always win.

Who must you become in order to create

what you want? What has to change about

you?

What is it that you're doing right now that

would be a liability for you? As you

begin to look toward the future and take

inventory of yourself, what is it about

you right now

that you've got to leave this behind

because this no longer fits. Looking at

where you want to go and the kind of

person that you must become, the kind of

standards that you have for you, what is

it that you must do differently? Clear your

mind of all distractions. I used to hold

the record for the fastest to memorize a

deck of cards in the United States and some

times before I would memorize a deck

of cards my brain would be worried about

things in my life or things that were

going on so what I would do to clear my

mind of all distractions is I would

close my eyes and I would visualize

those scenarios the way that I wish they

were or the way that I hope they would

be one day and then I would open my eyes, I

would be relieved of that stress and

then I would memorize a deck of cards.

Clear your mind of all distractions

maybe close your eyes and visualize the

things the way you wish they could be

and then focus on your studying. Depending

on how well you want to do, particularly if you're

starting a company you need to work

super hard. So, what does super hard mean? Well,

when my brother and I were starting our

first company instead of getting an

apartment we just rented a small office

and we slept on the couch and we showered

at the YMCA and we were so hard up we had

just one computer so the website was up

during the day and I was coding at night.

For seven days a week, all the time and I so

briefly had a girlfriend in that period and

in order to be with me she had to sleep in

the office. So, work hard like

it, I mean, every waking hour. That's, that's

the thing I would, I would say if you

particularly if you're starting a company

and I mean if you do simple math, you say

like okay if somebody else is working 50

hours and you're working a hundred

you'll get twice as done, as much done in

the course of a year as the other

company. If you want to learn something

faster you must first and foremost know

the connection between what you want to

learn and your dream life. Your real life

style that you want to have. I tell people

all the time like don't just come up

with things you want to learn because

guess what, we want to learn everything.

By human build, we are curious animals.

We're deathly curious. I mean we are

literally the curiosity killed the cat

sort of society right now. Everyone wants

to learn 50 new things immediately but

no one ever learns anything. Why? Because

it's not real for them it's a transient

desire. If you want to become a great

learner it has to be attached to a dream

life of yours. A true, a true lifestyle that you

see for yourself.