[Question]What's your best advice on building work ethic?

The best advice I can give is to view work ethic like a sport, or learning an instrument, or working out. It takes practice. See yourself as training for the event.

If you don't have great work ethic yet, then you're a rookie and you need to start with basic training. Then progressively add more work load.

That's how humans grow at anything. We increase the challenge and then our bodies and minds respond accordingly.

I would aim for light work loads done consistently and grow from there.

One more key thing. You often need to overcome the resistance to work/procrastination. I coax myself into doing work by 1. Anticipating the resistance. 2. saying to myself "Yeah this sucks but just do it anyway. 3. And only requiring the smallest of tasks from myself for the day. So that even on my worst day where I feel overwhelming resistance to work, I can still at the very least do that small amount and not feel like I failed.

So for reading, my minimum requirement would be to read one page for the day. Then I'll usually end up reading more. For studying you might try reading one paragraph from a text book and writing down the key point in your notes. Just do this small amount consistently and before you know it you will be doing full pages and then full chapters at a time.

If you get to the point of getting through a full chapter in a day, you'll be doing better than most of your classmates.

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