please drop your routines

BRO READ THIS FULLY. This will break your addiction if you actually take it seriously.

Let me hit you with a hard truth:

Every time you check your phone when you’re supposed to be reading, working, creating… You’re not taking a break. You’re not chilling. You’re being used. You're a lab rat pressing a dopamine button, waiting for a crumb of satisfaction.

All these socail medias, they are not free. You are the product. Your attention is the currency. And every time you scroll, you are paying with your future. You don’t scroll because you want to. You scroll because they designed your brain to need it.

These are coded by people who know exactly how to hijack your psychology - what sound, what color, what timing makes you crave another hit. They’ve studied you. They know how to keep you addicted better than you know how to focus. They’ve turned your mind into a playground they own. They know your brain better than you do.

You're not addicted to your phone, you've become a puppet to an invisible hand that profits every time you fail.

This isn’t entertainment. It’s enslavement. And the most terrifying part?

While you're watching reels… your real life is slipping through your fingers. Every second you spend consuming someone else’s highlight reel, is a second stolen from your own.

You know what’s even more disturbing?

While you’re busy scrolling, your potential self is dying in silence. The one who could’ve built something, learned something, become someone powerful, that version of you is being starved while you're being spoon-fed digital junk.

And you don't even realize it, until one day, you look back and realize you became nothing but a watcher. A ghost in your own life.

Let that sink in.

Here are 5 steps to break out from this mess. Not with weak tips. But with a mental revolution.

1. The 5-Second Mirror Test Before opening any socials, ask yourself: “Is this making me the person I want to become?” Then wait five seconds. If your answer is no, but you still open that —you’ve just chosen to betray yourself. Feel that.

2. Plan Tomorrow—Today Every night, before bed, grab a pen and plan your next day hour by hour. Not in your head. On paper. Write everything. Your work. Your rest. Even your scroll time. Yes, schedule it.

Because when you choose to scroll, it's control. When you drift into scrolling, it’s addiction. And here's the twist: Add a penalty for every rule you break. Didn’t follow your schedule? Pay a fine. Do push-ups. Miss a meal. Tell someone what you did. Feel the burn of failure. No punishment, no progress.

1. Rewire Your Reward System You crave dopamine, right? Fine. But now, you only earn dopamine through discipline.

No phone in the morning until you’ve done something real. Earn your entertainment. Get addicted to progress, not passivity. Reprogram your brain so success feels better than scrolling.

1. Create Your Replacement Universe Don’t just cut out social media. Build a new world to live in.

Books that bend your mind. Voicenotes with deep friends. Walks where you actually notice the sky. Silence, boredom, peace, get addicted to those.

You don't need more noise. You need depth.

1. Write Your Obituary. Right Now. Yes. Literally. If you died today, what would it say?

“He watched a lot of memes.”

“He scrolled past every goal he once dreamed of.”

“He had potential… but he just kept saying ‘after one more video."

Bro. Don’t let that be you. Don’t die a quiet death in a comment section.

You were not born to be an audience member. You were born to build, to feel deeply, to create something real. You were not born to consume life through a screen… while your own life slips away unnoticed.

Nah, bro. That’s not you.

You are not put on this Earth to scroll away your existence. You are not born to consume other people’s lives while yours rots in the background.

If you don’t take control of your attention… someone else will. And every scroll, every distraction, every wasted second, will stack up. Until one day, you look in the mirror… and don’t recognize the person staring back. Because the person you could’ve been Is already dead.

That’s the real cost of social media. Not wasted time. But a wasted self.

Now... Are you ready to take your mind back? Or are you just going to scroll past this too?

Your move.

I've been getting over 90% on my tests thanks to good planning

My Sunday Plan Time - I spend an hour each Sunday planning my week. I list all my topics, then use AI (like ChatGPT) to split them into daily chunks. I say things like, "Split these topics into a daily plan to finish by [Date]. Focus on [Subject 1] and [Subject 2]."

The best part is the AI gives me a start, but I fix it for my needs. The more I use it, the better it knows me. For example: "Here's when I'm busy: Monday, Wednesday, Friday: Gym at 7 PM. Tuesday: Class 2-4 PM. Saturday: Free. Sunday: Planning. Can you fix my study times?"

When you have your plan, stick to it (i know it's easier to tell, but that's the most important part) Missing study time makes it harder to start next time. If I plan to study at 10 AM Monday, I wake at 9, get ready, drink water, and prepare my mind. Just start - even 15 minutes helps build momentum

Save time where you can. If you take lots of notes from videos, find tools to write them for you. Use Anki or Quizlet for memory work. Study in short blocks with breaks to stay sharp

This isn't perfect, but it's helped me get better grades. Be steady, change the plan when needed, and let AI help you ♥️

I HATE studying, i detest it, and most days I cannot bring myself to study. I have great memory, I like analyzing material, I like learning new concepts, but sitting down at the desk and opening a textbook? not happening. I have no idea why. In the last 12 years I never once studied more than an hour or so the night before a test, except right before my IB exams where I actually studied everyday for 3 weeks. Now i’m at uni and I really want to do well in my course (law) as the stakes are so now higher than in secondary school. How do I motivate myself to study? How do I force myself to choose studying over leisure?

Here's a thought i had the other day

Studying is hard, even though it is good for us.

Why is this? Shouldn’t studying be easy?

The reason why studying is hard: is because your brain wants to keep you safe.

I’ll explain the science behind why this happens, and what you can do to make productivity significantly easier.

The difficulty of productivity is decided by how you view yourself.

How you view yourself in relation to your work to be specific: If you view yourself as very productive, then productivity will be significantly easier for you than if you didn’t.

This happens because your brain does not like change. This is also why our personalities and values remain relatively the same throughout our lives. When we do something atypical of ourselves, our brain dislikes this and you feel negative emotions. Our brains want us to remain as we are, and this is because we have proven to be able to survive in our current state.

And this happens because your brain is only concerned about your survival, and your “current self” is surviving just fine, you are surviving well in your current state right now.

So your brain doesn’t see the need to change, it wants you to remain as the person that you are right now, because you’ve established that you can survive in your current state.

So how does this make working and being productive difficult?

This is because, when you do things like work, and other tasks where more is expected of you than what you currently are, these situations cause you to improve, and therefore change.

Your brain doesn’t like change, even when you’re improving, because your brain is solely focused on your survival, and it doesn’t want the risk of you changing, because you are surviving just fine in your current situation now

Situations like working cause you to become a better version of yourself, and to become a better version of yourself, your current self has to die, for the new and improved you, to take its place.

And your brain doesn’t want that, your brain sees changing, even improving, as risky, because you are surviving just fine in your current state, your brain doesn’t want you to change, your brain wants you to stay who you are.

So how can you make productivity easier? You can make productivity significantly easier by viewing yourself as a hard worker, because then hard work becomes typical of you, so you are no longer changing as much, so your brain produces less negative emotion when you are being productive.

But this is much harder than it sounds, because the only way to view yourself as a hard worker, is by working hard, and you know deep down if you are trying as hard as you can.

But if you are working very hard, very diligently, and you are genuinely trying your best, then studying will become easy for you.

(writing this while I’m taking a quick break, it’s currently 1am my head hurts so please bare with my bad grammar)

Im not really sure If I’m doing wrong I mean..I study hard, I listen to lectures, I make my own notes and acronyms and I read the necessary books for my majors and try to make sense of it all. But for some reason I keep flunking my exams. I’ve already failed both my prelims and midterms..and I’ve been trying to study up for my upcoming semis and finals.

I’ve tried changing my ways on how I review like watching some youtube vids about topics related to my major subjects, but for some reason I still miss the mark by 5 or 10 points. I guess I’m on here cause I need some advice? Maybe you guys know other ways how to effectively study.

Satisfied with today's output! 25 days to go!

Progress >>>> Perfection

Hey guys,

So lately I’ve been trying to study without studying.
Like… what if my phone could help me review without even opening an application?

That idea turned into a little side project I’m working on — a flashcard widget that lives on your iPhone Home Screen.
Every time I unlock my phone, I get a bite-sized reminder from my deck. Bio terms, Psych vocab, CARS quotes — whatever I’m working on that week.

The cool part?

It uses FSRS spaced repetition (same algorithm as Anki)
You can add your own decks
Passive recall: just unlock your phone, and your brain gets a gentle nudge 🧠✨
And… there's a “Leaderboard of Laziness” if you’re not studying. Because solidarity 😅

It’s still in development, but I’m hoping to launch a beta in the next two weeks!

the last time I gave an exam,it was 2016.

I am preparing for an exam this sep-oct. and I have no clue how I am supposed to do prepare. I am just so overwhelmed.

I have total 167 chapters to study before the exam. tho I am not entirely new to the topics since I used to study here and there in the past years but looking at the books(PDFs) my mind is going blank.

the exam itself is just an high school diploma but it's means a lot to me, considering my age, if I fail, not only I'll burden my guardian more, but it'll also waste a year.

I don't know how I am supposed to schedule self study, and I also do arts(drawing, I am learning). everything is just overwhelming. maybe because I am used to live without any such pressure for a few years now.

any advice would be helpful. thank you.

Tell me what you do when are free?

If you are an overthinker, then read these words like your life depends on it. Because it does. You’re not tired. You’re not broken. You’re just a prisoner of your own damn thoughts. You sit there, overthinking everything, every decision, every risk, every word you say, every step you might take. You know what that is? That’s mental self-harm. You’re stabbing your own future with the knives of doubt. You’re not being careful, you’re just being a coward. Yeah. I said it. Because someone has to. You’re so busy building worst-case scenarios in your head that you’re living in a world that doesn’t even exist. You’re so scared of falling that you never walk. You’re so obsessed with being perfect that you’ve become perfectly useless. Let me tell you the truth that no one dares to say: You will waste your life if you don’t start moving. And don’t feed me that “I don’t feel ready” excuse. No one feels ready. Confidence doesn’t come before action, it comes after you’ve survived doing it scared. You want to be bold? Then bleed for it. So here’s what you do. • Write your worst thoughts down. All of them. Then rip that page up. Burn it. Spit on it if you want. Just externalize it. Stop letting your mind be a battleground. Make it a weapon.

You don't need more time. You don't need more thinking. You need to do. Move. Mess up. Learn. Adjust. But for the love of everything, stop standing still. Because if you don't change right now, today, this moment-you never will.

Because right now, your mind is not your friend. It’s your enemy. And unless you take back control, it’s going to bury you alive. And I swear to you, if you do nothing… if you keep sitting there, lost in thought, letting another day, another dream, another version of yourself die… if you keep overthinking until your dreams rot in their graves— Fine. Stay there. But don’t you ever say no one tried to save you.

i'm sick and tired of this uni bullshit they keep you for 8 hours on campus, and give you shit to do at home, you basically have no time for yourself.

They give you 15 days vacation just to prepare for the exams on the week after, how about a real vacation to actually rest my fucking brain?

i study like an animal and still get average at best.

all i feel is extreme anger, wasting time while others are actually doing real work.

i know i cannot dropout, that will kill me and let everyone down, So what's your advice? How in hell do i return on track?

Once Fyodor dostoyewski said in his story that I might not have any real friends in this human world but I have the buildings of my city , every root I take , and every house I see on my way , they have there own story where I can connect them , for me they are my real friends that's why I never felt alone .

How do you make your flashcards? It takes a lot of time for me...would love to hear how yall are doing it...

I am a high school student.when I was kid I was a good student but know even if I want to study I can't.when I sit for study I really get impatient.like I don't want and I have no wish or confident in me.My private teacher is a good teacher but the person expectation is not easy to complete.I can't quite this because In many years it is the best teacher I had.i know I need to work hard.all I am missing that I am not very perfect and patient.i wish I was strong for this but I am really not good.

These were my results for the year 10 assessment window, (thankfully not the GCSE's). I really need advice and help on how I could improve these results until the end of school in around 2 - 3 months. Note that we won't have many tests and I am just completely lost on where to even start.

Anyways, put your best study method for students who are in need. You never know

i need please

From Struggles to Breakthrough – My Journey of Perseverance

In Year 9 (3rd year of secondary school), I struggled with subjects like math, physics, and chemistry. My grades were low, and some teachers openly questioned whether I even belonged in the academic track, let alone in a scientific direction. But I didn’t give up. Despite the setbacks, I kept fighting, kept working, and kept searching for ways to improve. I wanted to prove that I could do it — for myself, for everyone who believed in me, and even for those who didn’t.

And I did. In Year 10 (4th year of secondary school), I made a turnaround that no one saw coming. I went from 39% to 83% in the math exam. From 41% to 100% in physics. From being a doubtful student to the one being discussed in the teachers’ room — not because of my struggles, but because of my breakthrough. My biology teacher even said: “Your hard work has resulted in the best grade in the class.”

What I’ve learned is that effort and passion weigh more than talent alone. And I have that passion: for science, for understanding the world, for discovering and growing.

If I can do it, you can do it too💪

Hi! I'm a student struggling in reading and even answering tests. I tend to become sleepy when I start studying (reading reviewers, books, transes) and even taking tests in school! I am already in my last year of uni when this started to happen (i know embarrassing), I have enough sleep and I also eat enough before doing any of the said activities. I really want to know if you have hacks/tips to stop this. I really get annoyed when this happens because my eyes get heavy and I get really sleepy even when I'm doing something REALLY important (there was an instance when my seatmate even asked me if I was okay because I almost hit my head on the table cause I dozed off, during our midterms). I tried drinking coffee/energy drinks but they don't work :( .Thank you in advance