in this video I'm going to show you a short hack that literally takes like 5 minutes to implement And it allowed me to get three A stars in my A-level exams and get accepted into the University of Hong Kong And I did this while actually still enjoying my life And it was because of this hack called dopamine loading I've actually been using this hack for um quite a long time without actually realizing it So I'm going to share some actionable tips that you can literally implement starting today If you watch until the end of this video I guarantee you you will get better grades in less time while still actually enjoying your student life So let's get into it So basically this is dopamine loading Wake up sleep This is your dopamine This is um basically the day What most people's dopamine looks like throughout the day kind of looks like this graph So they'll wake up basically They'll wake up and then oh boom they'll start scrolling on their phone and that's already a really really big dopamine spike then because like uh they'll try to get them back down to work and studying again So they'll now be at this really really low dopamine state And at this low dopamine state it's very very difficult to actually get work done You'll start to feel bored You'll start to feel extremely annoyed and just not being able to focus because your brain has already been exposed to this really high spike of dopamine So now um what most students would do at this time this was me when I was younger basically I would like start to study for maybe you know 5 to 15 minutes Then I would get extremely bored of studying Then I would do I'll basically go on my phone scroll on YouTube scroll on Instagram Then that's another dopamine spike Then basically after that uh you know I'll try to get back into work cuz I'll realize I'll I'll be procrastinating again Another low dopamine state I'll get bored of it because I won't be able to work Then what happens is okay now I'm gonna have a really really big carby lunch Basically like unhealthy food unnecessary snacks like basically high sugar meals So I would eat like a lot of carbs for lunch And basically it would create this really really really big dopamine spike Not as bad as you know waking up and actually check on my phone but you know it's like not that good either So basically what will happen is like you know I'll be operating in these states throughout the day I'll wake up scroll on my phone you know try to actually sit down and work scroll my phone again maybe watch Netflix or YouTube maybe watch like one piece or something then I would go back down to this low dopamine state and my brain would just fluctuate between these high dopamine states and these low dopamine states When that happens my brain is literally not able to focus and lock in and work because in this low dopamine state let me tell you it becomes a hellish experience to try and sit down and work You'll be thinking about the stuff that you did just before To confess like to me for me this dopamine spike some days it was like I wake up and I literally I would grab my phone and start watching porn on my phone It was that bad And you know with porn the dopamine spike goes all the way like up here It's that bad Because of that when I try to actually start to work in this low dopamine state you can be sure that's it's not possible It's just not possible So that's what most people's dopamine looks like and that's how my dopamine looked like before I started to implement this technique So when did I start implementing this te technique Well I started doing it when I was in year 12 So basically around year 12 end of exam season around um exam season I basically started using this dopamine loading method without actually realizing it So here's what my dopamine kind of looks like during that time So like it would be like 700 a.m I would wake up you know and I wouldn't eat breakfast So the first thing I would do is I would go shower Go shower And literally the only stimulating thing that would happen for me was that the water would be hitting my skin and I'll be brushing my teeth That's it Then I would go get some sunlight which is like natural dopamine Again that's not bad So I would get some sunlight and then you know do my morning routine and stuff Then I would go to school So now 8:30 a.m I'll be at school and I'll be basically studying for the entire day So actually from this time to this time I would not be I would not be like playing video games or watching like scrolling on my phone or doing anything like that Basically I would just be studying studying studying and maybe going to class as well I would not be like on my phone or anything And here's the thing I from this time I didn't actually eat anything until like 12 12:00 p.m So I would basically not eat anything until lunchtime Then I would eat lunch and I would eat a low carbohydrate meal I basically went into my cafeteria asked my I asked the cafeteria lady to not give me any rice or anything like that And it allowed me to basically focus for the entire day until 3:00 p.m when I finished uh when I finished school So once I finished school and got back home I've already done a lot of studying I've already done a lot of hard work already So maybe I would go back home to do gym in like my garage place or I would go to like this apartment where I would have a really nice sauna Then my dopamine would basically spike a little bit Then around like let's say let's say it's like 5:00 p.m Then I would actually go back home and I would be able to enjoy myself I would have already spent my free periods I spent the entire day studying So from 5:00 p.m onwards I literally could do whatever the heck I want So from this time this time was when I started to you know watch Netflix I started to watch you know I remember binge watching Attack on Titan like not exactly binge watching but watching a couple of episodes of Attack on Titan cuz it was a releasing during that time I also watched like Bleach Thousand-Year Blood War also a super super fire anime So basically around 5:00 p.m to like 900 p.m That's when my dopamine is the highest So basically for the entire day I don't do any I don't do any high dopamine activity then at the end boom that's when I have that spike of dopamine By the way real quick if you're um interested in learning more of this kind of stuff and you want more personalized help from me You can check out my community It's called AAR students link below in the description Um anyways back to the video So around 5 to 9:00 p.m uh that's when I have my high dopamine activities This is when I eat a high carbohydrate meal for dinner I I I don't eat like McDonald's and stuff because I I don't think it's really that healthy but I would eat a you know a relatively high more high carbohydrate meal around this time Then so from 5:00 to 9:00 p.m that's when I do all of my fun activities So the key point here is to understand that our brains operate highly on contrast You know when we have these really high peaks of dopamine and these really low troughs of dopamine what ends up happening is that when we're in this low states of dopamine we can't bring ourselves to do the hard work because the the we've already done the easy stuff the more the really enjoyable stuff first Then like the low dopamine work like exercising you know doing past papers that just becomes not so fun anymore So it becomes a lot easier to like zone off and like not not do the hard work You know by the way not all dopamine is actually bad You know the problem with these peaks of dopamine and this one as well is that all of these are artificial label with an A So this could be like watching porn Watching porn spikes your dopamine up so high that it doesn't even fit on the scale And you can expect that when the when you go all the way down and you try to start working again you bet that you absolutely cannot do it So the problem with these artificial dopamine releases like you know scrolling on Tik Tok watching YouTube videos like highly edited YouTube videos um like maybe watching Netflix The problem with those activities is that it literally it literally creates this unnatural contrast that your your caveman brain literally cannot uh fathom And so it becomes a lot harder to do difficult work So this is kind of like what my exam schedule was like 2 weeks ago Literally two weeks ago So I would wake up at around 7:30 a.m and basically at this time from 7:30 so basically it was like I would go shower and you know do my morning routine brush my teeth stuff like that Then from 8:00 a.m until 11:00 a.m this was work This was when I would do the basically the hardest task first thing in the morning So for me in during exam season it was doing one pass paper That was like the hardest thing that I could do and the most rewarding thing that I could do at the time So I did a pass paper from 8 to 11 So at 11:00 a.m to 1:00 p.m I would go to the gym You know I don't put I don't listen to any loud music while I'm in the gym I don't put any headphones I just go to the gym and I just lift the weight That's pretty natural dopamine It's not like artificial or anything like that Okay So now at 1:00 p.m I would basically go and eat lunch So lunch mode take maybe like an hour cuz I I eat in a cafeteria and basically this is the time where I just kind of go and socialize with my friends and you know have a little bit of fun cuz in exam season everything is so stressful So around this time I would basically have lunch for 1 hour Then after 2:00 p.m to 7:00 p.m that's when I do my final block of work This is like a really really big chunk of work So I would maybe do maybe like a another pass paper or something like that And so yeah after 7:00 p.m then this is the time where I actually start to dopamine load So around this time 700 p.m to 10:00 p.m I would basically have my dinner So my dinner usually it's like rice chicken um maybe it's like fish whatever like the cafeteria serves it It rotates every week So basically around this time I'm eating a more high carbohydrate meal I'm loading myself up with carbs because around this time I don't have to worry about not being able to do any work cuz this time is my free time It's the time where I basically just load up all my dopamine and stuff So after I eat dinner I basically this entire time I remember I would go into the library sit on the couch like away from where I was working and I would watch like a couple of episodes of anime So like I remember I was watching Bleach Thousand-Year Blood War and I was just finishing up like the third season and I was sitting down in the library and I was just watching that stuff Honestly I didn't mind That was completely fine for me It didn't matter that I was having this artificial dopamine at this time because I've already done all of my work beforehand Sometimes instead of watching anime maybe I will basically just go on the couch and read a book for a little bit The pro the point here the key thing I want you to understand here is that when you do all of the work beforehand and do the fun stuff at the end of the day then it becomes a lot easier to trick your brain into doing hard things Plus a little bit of a bonus when you do this dopamine uh dopamine loading right When you wake up it becomes a lot easier to get into that habit of doing hard work in the morning because you know that at night you can have all you can have all these fun stuff at night So you can literally you literally your days will look so much more fun and cheerful and more enjoyable Like you don't even have to worry about uh work anymore By the way if you want like extra advice extra tips more personalized help from me and other students you might want to check out Aar Students The link is in the description below I basically cover highly highly advanced study tips just like this one But as always may God guide us on the right path and I'll see you in the next video