# Richad Yu notes

## 1. Business tips

- Environment is everything
- Focus on sales 80%
- Protect your time
- 10X your goals
- You move at the speed of your obedience 

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## 2. High Performance Class Richard Yu

Recap

- **Hack 1** Nonnegotiable rules
- **Hack 2** The 3X Magic Time (deep work)
- **Hack 3** Schedule work the last one 
- **Hack 4** Everyone needs a coach to improve

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## 3. Early Morning Tips

- Increase fasted state
- Delay workouts, prioritise work
- Delay communications on devices
- The morning routine starts the night before

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## 4. How to fix focusing issues

- Stop multitasking
- Monotasking. Focus on one thing at the time
- Optimise phisiology
- You can improve your concentration (it's like a muscle you can train)
- Take proper breaks without the phone
- Pomodoro technique could help you get started

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## 5. How to start journaling

- Find a quite spot elsewhere
- Pull out a blank paper sheet
- Brain dump for 5 minutes
- 3x3 method. Write down 3 things you are grateful for. Write down 3 people you care and love, pray for them, communicate with them. Write down 3 business important things for the day.
- Write down your main thing, your big goal for the year.

Don't journal for more than 15 minutes

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## 6. How to stay focused

Concept of Deep Work

- Enter it only when you have clarity of the finish line. Determine your end goal!
- Limit distractions, study alone
- Track what you eat. No large meal before studying. Blood to gut, not to brain...
- Determine why you are doing this in the first place. Work with **intention**

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## 7. How to stay organised at school

Written down calendar, not digital. Better retention, no distractions

Tactical tips:

1. Buy a notebook
2. Split the page in 2 vertically
3. Left side write down schedule 30-60 min blocks and location
4. Right side write down top 3 priorities
5. Write the night before

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## 8. How to take notes better

- Paper > Electronic Devices
- Note Making > Note Taking. Create the neural connections
- Draw a line down the middle of the page. Left side for note taking, right side for note making
- Two coloured pens: Blue or black fore overall notes. Red for important highlights
- Always finish with action items. Info is meant to be use for execution. Draw an horizontal line and write top 3 actions to do after learning that information

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## 9. How to trick your brain to like doing hard things

Dopamine is key

1. Dopamine detox
2. Hard things first
3. Put non-negotiable rules in your life