Why Students Fail to Achieve Their Goals Despite High Productivity and Hustling (and the Simple Solution)

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90% of students trade a disproportionate amount of time & energy for minimal returns.

They take consistent action & implement the latest productivity tips/apps.

But fail to achieve their goals satisfactorily.

Here's is why, and the dead-simple solution.

Many students believe that improving efficiency and task-goal alignment is the best way to productively achieve their goals.

But there is an important factor missing in this:

The effectiveness of their actions, based on scientific studies.

When a student enters college and finds themselves suddenly and completely buried in an avalanche of commitments and deadlines, they turn to popular productivity methodologies. Most focus on raising task efficiency and goal setting. They rarely focus on scrutinising each task and evaluating whether science backs the effectiveness of each action.

This has systematically raised a generation of 'productive' hustlers, trading a disproportionate amount of time and energy investment for little returns.

• I see plenty of fellow college peers spending tons of time copying notes and reading lecture slides (inefficient study methods)—and getting mediocre grades.

I see plenty