Give me 10 minutes of your time and I promise you will leave this room feeling more motivated and ready to tackle any task. How many of you have ever sat down to do your work, open your computer, and then somehow ended up scrolling on Tik Tok or Instagram for 2 hours? You are not alone. This has happened to me more times than I'd like to admit. I remember the night before my geography test, frantically trying to absorb all the information from the slideshows, wondering if I would be able to crown the entire ...

[Music] How many times have you put off work time and time again just because it's a lot of work or I'll wake up early and do it tomorrow or the big one, I work better under pressure anyways. How many times have you told yourself, "Oh, I'll do it tomorrow." Only to find that tomorrow never comes. Quite a lot of you, right.86% of teenagers have been shown to procrastinate assignments. 92% of college students have been shown to procrastinate studying for exams. College students.Well, my name is Mirror Salah. ...

Give me 10 minutes of your time and I promise you will leave this room feeling more motivated and ready to tle any task. How many of you have ever sat down to do your work, open your computer, and then somehow ended up scrolling on TikTok or Instagram for 2 hours. You are not alone.This has happened to me more times than I' like to admit. I remember the night before my geogray test franc trying to all the information from the slid shows wondering if I would be able to memorize the entire unit in just one ni ...

Imagine [Applause] spending ages preparing for a project just to fail two steps from success. In grade 8, I was facing an exam I've been preparing for for the last year and pressure was mounting. But in those final few months leading up to the exam, I barely studied two hours on my best days while others did double.When the results finally came out, I realized that I was so close to my goal but just failed. This is just one of countless times where my productivity has held me back from success. But while my ...

[Music] [Applause] Let me confess something. I procrastinated writing this speech. I had weeks to prepare.I told myself, Michelle, start early. Research, outline, practice. But did I.Of course not. I found myself doing other things. important things obviously like organizing my shows, watching just one episode of my favorite show, scrolling social media, checking notifications that didn't even exist when suddenly panic.The deadline was staring at me and I had to rush to get everything done. Sound familiar. ...

Core Argument - Procrastination is defined as the willful avoidance of tasks one knows they need to do, primarily a problem of getting started [4][5] - Procrastination is a defense mechanism against negative emotions like fear of failure and anxiety [5][6] - Instant gratification, fueled by dopamine release from activities like phone scrolling, increases baseline dopamine levels, making it harder to focus on less stimulating tasks [11][12][13][14] Practical Strategies - Delete apps from phones to reduce instant gratification and make the phone less appealing, limiting usage to 30-45 minutes per day [17][18] - The 5-minute rule involves committing to a task for only 5 minutes to overcome the initial hurdle of starting [20][21] - The 2-minute rule encourages immediate completion of tasks that take less than 2 minutes to avoid mental burden [23][24] - The Pomodoro Technique uses 30-minute work intervals followed by 5-minute breaks to leverage the recency and primacy effect for better focus [26][27] Productivity and Mindset - Achieving a flow state requires limiting distractions to enter a state of focused concentration [29][30] - Discipline, not motivation, is key to success; consistent action is more important than fleeting feelings of motivation [32][33][34]

When I was a child, I could fluently speak a language that wasn't English. I could converse with my relatives and it was a way to relate to my culture. Bangla or Bengali was a reminder that I come from a beautiful heritage. However, as I grew older, the world of English literature seemed to open around me and I found flipping through the pages of books like Percy Jackson to be super exciting. With that in mind, by the time I was 10 years old, I could only form together a few disjointed sentences of Bengali ...

taking care of tomorrow today when future you overwhelms present you in high school. Picture this. It's a Wednesday night and you're sitting at your desk surrounded by textbooks, unfinished assignments, and a growing sense of panic.A big test looms tomorrow. Your phone buzzes. It's your girlfriend texting you that it's her girlfriend's that it's her grandmother's birthday party and you're invited.You think about it and hesitate. Should you go. Why not.You go and you get this sense of relief when you get the ...