Back to School: Everything I Know About Succeeding 

“Take care of yourself, get 8-9 hours of sleep” “24 hour minecraft stream at one mil!!!”

Hey John, you should do a day in the life vlog in Montreal ☺️

You’re very thoughtful. I’m a Senior studying Chemical Engineering at the University of Kentucky, and I endorse everything John said in this video.

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John: Sleep is essential Also John: 24 hour minecraft stream

if your classes start late on most days like mine - the most effective way of getting things done (in my case at least) is to sleep/wake up early. You will be 10x more productive! When I come back after my college classes I'm usually dead tired and this prevents me from learning new concepts as well as I could - so I use that time for assignments, chores, reading - less heavy stuff basically. I just feel energised and ready to do anything in the morning! Plus it's always quieter--- and so beautiful. PS - I'm not one of those people who's always been a morning person - it took a lot of hard work. I used to sleep/wake up late and just feel drowsy throughout the day, and fall sick more often - so I tried to make a change, and it worked wonderfully! Try it :))

As a tutor of almost 10 years I agree with much of this.

why does john just have his life together ugh imagine being organized and productive.

Anyone else watching this instead of doing their homework?

This boy right here wants to make my day productive and effective! Very inspiring!!

You have helped me so much with my finals I got straight A’s and maintained my 4.0 thank you so much

To all students there, work these good habits ASAP, they're gold for your future professional life! Thanks John for this useful and refreshing video. BTW , I love your new background : so much light compared to your Harvard room.

I’m going into twelfth grade of high school this year in Ontario. In eleventh grade in the second semester I was very miserable. I never hated school that much and my grades were worse than ever (they weren’t bad, just not what I know I can get). I realize now that during last year I lost my love of learning. I would sit in class and not even listen to the teacher talk. I only did homework if it was due or if my teachers were to check (which was never so I never did it). I didn’t even study for exams. My grades weren’t going down that much so I was never really motivated to start doing the right things again. I didn’t feel fulfilled and it felt like everything I was doing was meaningless and not what I wanted to be doing. I think I’m beginning to find the love again. Hopefully this year will go better!

Man, I wish I had friends like this who are such good role models. Growing up thinking school has no application to literally made the whole journey less fun. Still made it, but wish I actually enjoyed school like John does!

This message from John is actually profound. John explains things very well. Best back to school video that I have seen. Will help many. It is good to watch many times and save it on your playlist.

1. engage in class, eliminate distractions, sit in front, show up 2. take notes physically and rephrase, especially in a way your brain processes the information, be organised with the notes 3. ask questions clarify understanding, good students understand material as they are being taught, concepts are built on so ask questions to get that foundation right don’t ask for the sake of it to prove you’re listening 4. do your homework right don’t do mindless repetition of stuff you are already good at, you have limited time and capacity, don’t waste it and prioritise the weaker stuff to make it strong still do your homework tho 5. time management personalised recommend: experiment what successful people do, use google calendar to schedule stuff discipline is useful in getting what you have to done so that you can do what you wanna do 6. learn how to study better don’t just jump in! his method: taken engaged physical notes that is organised well create a crypt sheet - summary, condensed forced to recall understanding use feynman method - explain everything in the course stop after the cheat sheet 7. take care of yourself! sleep, a superpower hydration nutrition exercise social life

youtube knew what it was doing by recommending this to me.

Im so glad you have a lot of subs because you actually bring something important and rare to RU-vid that helps so many people. And thank you for this.

I was about watch one of your videos but i couldn’t decide and then you upload a new one Thanks for curing my anxiety

Yay... Been waiting for almost a week for another video from you. Thank you John! ❤️❤️

Hey John your videos have been helping me this last couple of years and please stay the way you are where you very informative and inspiring your awesome man Thanks for your videos

Hey John, I really want to thank you for motivating me so much. Never have I ever been able to focus so much on my science channel while still maintaining great grades! Thanks so much!!

"Sleep is the biggest superpower you can give yourself" - something to live by.

love all of this especially the time management. finding time to relax & have healthy human interactions is so important as a student. great video!

HEY JOHN. thank you for the tips and tricks

I have been here since you had less than 100k subscribers. I am not surprised you are growing so much, quality quality quality.

john , you're the best motivation & planning teacher as I ever had . love you dude ❤️❤️

John, I cant explain how helpful your content is💙 I appreciate your existence🙏🏻

Thanks for the great tips! I’m now as a flight cadet now, and I need to learn as much as I can. Learning is a very vital skill in a pilot’s career. John’s video is really good to maintain a outstanding learning habit.

So glad you posting again, great update

Oh wow. I feel like this is the video I really needed. I feel so ready for school having a new mindset provided by your video. Can't wait to implement those things and create new habits. Much love, cheers from Poland

Your video on how to enjoy school has helped me significantly. Last semester I established class-specific goals outside of just earning As and found that I was willing to spend more time working toward achieving them (and studying!) I recommended your video to one of my profs and he loved it. Thank you for turning the rest of my college experience around. :)

You are a living legend already. Your videos are really helpful and I feel more productive everytime I watch one of your videos.

Your videos have gotten me past the toughest of times. I can't thank you enough! Wishing you all the success and happiness!

John is the only person i'd watch a 20 minute video about school for. Thank you John. Great advice once again.

Dude... you really outdid yourself on this one. The best advice I've gotten in a while, and I really needed it as all summer I've been exercising the very opposite of the habits you talked about. Keep making videos, thanks!

This was amazing John! Keep up the good work!

John, there are no words to thank you. You are one of my fav yutubers. You inspire me, and help me a lot. Hope you enjoy this gap year, and please continue creating videos for us 💗 You deserve more than 1M subs! From Spain

Tbh, I really do believe this is one of the best videos on RU-vid! Impactful content. It truly changed my way of looking and dealing with the struggle of studying at university.

Dude. All these take care of you thing. That's the real deal. Thats the gem in this advise. Keep it up john.

John always coming through with the absolute best advice for students. I endorse every piece of advice regarding student life he's given - I applied the summary-sheet revision technique for my exams and went from not ranking to being on the higher end of the honor roll. Thank you for everything you do - here's to hoping for 1 million sooner than ever!

Johns videos are so well formatted, I always look forward to watching them :)

You changed my life, i am so grateful. God bless you, people like you are rare, and you made a difference, you really did🙏

This is one of the best study advice I have ever heard. Keep up the good work, John! very inspiring

Everytime I want to get into a productive mood I watch John’s videos. Works every time!

You're amazing John! You radiate so much happiness and peace

I love these silent intro's!

"Your goal is to be happy" my dad also says that pretty much every time, you are so amazing, adore watching your videos always give me a boost of motivation when I really need, keep up doing that, bc that's what all we really need, to realize and figure out the our own way to live our lifes. With that being said I just want to say thank you a looot 🥰

Fantastic video. Good on you, Fish!

Always good hearing from you brother

Hi John, your contents really inspire me! I am a 35 years old man, and I am currently doing my advanced study in the Harvard extension school. I think I can do better after watching your video, and your rule number 7, Take care of yourself' is touching me really. I've ordered two growth books for me and for my wife. Keep it up!

Thanks for sharing these useful notes to live a productive and satisfying life. You're probably one of the most inspiring utubers ❤️

Thanks for the helpful advice! I love your channel 😄 I'm going into my first year of university in September and I'm pretty excited

You guys this guy's pretty cool in person I just came from his Meetup this afternoon and it was great! John keep shining and thank you for the content :)

Just imagine if every student out there watched this video...everyone would be so much better off. Thanks for the consistent value John and I totally agree with you, taking care of yourself is the pillar everything else stands on. Take care!

Thank you for inspiring me to finally start my summer work 3 days before school

So much wisdom here. Thanks for sharing John! Loved watching!

This is hands down the most beneficial personal growth video I have ever watched. I am a rising high school junior and I feel like following these steps just altered to a high school setting will change my life. Thank you so much. You need to write a book.

Thank you so much!! From my bad experience at school, short hours of sleep I 'm pretty confident that your advices are great. I'll start applying them Insha'Allah. Wish you all the best.

So glad I found this channel. I'll be sitting for my final exam in two months and I surely want to excel in order to pursue my dream course(astronomy). I followed the habits and tips that he shared, I definitely am getting more productive and improving now. Thanks a lot for the very helpful content!! New sub from Malaysia 🇲🇾

Literally changing my life one video at a time. 🙏 thanks for this extremely informative video. Really helps take off some of the anxiety before starting school!

Hello from France, just want to thank you for this video !

Thank you John, you're the best!

Your tips/advice are so useful, I actually have improved in my notes thanks.

i have an upcoming exams and this would be inspired by yours truly. So happy to found your channellll

Great video, John! It gives me a lot of motivation to start the things I abandoned and keep up with new ones!

You're a great guy John and you've inspired me to read more and structure my days better. I just wish you made videos like these when I was in university!!

I really like John because he always shows this side of him that prove that there's no perfect human being. You'll be feeling down someday. Knowing that even people like him feels down or have an unproductive day sometimes made me felt a whole lot better. It's okay to suck, the important thing is to still stick around even when you don't feel like it. Thanks John!

I love this kind of content from you. So informational and easy to understand

Almost 600K subscribers! Excellent, John

Love your perspective on things. Very practical.

This Channel is amazing. This video makes me want to be more productive in life and in school

Keep making these brother it's so motivating to be productive and everything ! Would love to see a day in the life in Montreal

Tests being "game days" actually made me stop in tje middle of rewriting my notes and really think. I love the analogy and it makes school seem so much more... engaging and entertaining? Thank you for this video man, love your work!

Your Vedios are very helpful. I watch them to get motivated to study and keep up with the good works in class. Really appreciated! 🙏

So you just randomly show up in my recommendation and change my life for the better ❤️

I'd like to think I already do most to all of these things he's been talking about, but after listening I feel like I can become more productive. Thank you John.

You’re amazing John, hope I’ll start new school year with implemented all of those advices👏

I love that you have a positive message about school and studying. Now a days, education has gotten a bad reputation and I totally understand why but it’s nice that you give a new and refreshing outlook on the subject and teaching people how to use education to their advantage.

Hey, I am french and I didn't practice my english for a complete year (maybe u already can see it through my writting skills...) I failed my last school year but I do learned on my own capacities and I want to be a better student for the current year. Despite my weakness in english, your accent is really "easy" (I don't really know what to say) to understand if I focus. After the first five minutes I managed to understand 95% of what u're saying. And tbh, It's really helpful for student like me : never organized, bad time management, doing a lot of exercices on the same point... Thx a lot John. Don't judge my english pls :'( (I swear to practice)

John, thank you for making this video. As a Freshman, i assume this video/your content will surely help me a lot

So helpful, thanks. Forty-year-old college kid and business owner. Step by step. I wish you much success.

I just love your videos John!!!!

I really enjoyed the video, thanks John ! I support the fact, from experience, that taking care of yourself is the most important point in this video. Take care everybody :)

What a Legend John! Hope I do well this year

Thank you for these precious advices 👍

Happy Birthday John !!

Such a good video! After watching it I even feel better when I think about school 'cause I've got a lot in my head now so I can see an other view of studying and all that stuff

Excellent content as always ❤

I saw this vid 2 or 3 times and the amount of information on one vid in insane so much awesome tips I'll make sure to try to follow them trew my school year. Awesome vid John continue the good work. Much love from Portugal.

He is helping many people around the world...no one would ever put in the right points in right way..easy to understand...kudos John.

This guy is incredible so young so wise thanks much!

thank u John, these videos are helpful!!!!!

Very informative, while i do know most of the the stuff mentioned in the video, i did pick up new things i can work on. Brilliant content, you deserve every like and sub.

Thank you❤️❤️ ❤️ that was really good and I absolutely love your advice 💫 best of luck, John😊 I wish you all the best in your life ❤️

Great work & service. Thank you for this video : )

Thank u john looking forward to my school year and being productive at most .........

I CAN NOT put into words how much this helped me thank you so much😁

I'm thinking maybe you should use a whiteboard for each header to save on paper. :)