This Article Will Help You Finish Essays Fast

A good work ethic is crucial to developing a better person and world than how you initially view it.

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In a recent interview with Colin and Samir, former NASA engineer, former Apple employee, and YouTube engineer Mark Rober shared some advice about pacing. Mark Rober was extremely protective about pacing, so he refused to hire editors and other people to assist him in his production. And it led to fewer than 100 videos per year, with upload times from a couple weeks to several months. However, Colin and Samir noted the insane consistency from video to video. They even shared that Mark Rober has an average view count per video of 28 million views, compared to MrBeast, with 26 million views. And every video he made for the past two years reached over 10 million views. So, if Mark Rober can get over 10 million views per video once every couple of weeks, what does it have to do with speed?

A good work ethic is crucial to developing a better person and world than how you initially view it. One of the essential ideas is time management and pacing. These two things are crucial in timing right from assignment to assignment. So, how to get it right?

I wanted to return to Mark Rober's situation. Although he publishes videos on YouTube every couple of weeks, he's constantly working on 10 videos per year. His videos were extravagant things that required many people to get the shooting done. He's not one of those YouTubers who struggled to post a weekly video in any of his footage. Colin and Samir joked about his extreme protectiveness of timing as he jogs comfortably in the creator treadmill. This timing was why Mark Rober uploaded videos with serious consistency, quality, and serious views. While you're not there to upload YouTube videos and get 10 million views, the strategies to get your work done will work just as well as Mark Rober.

Do your project immediately after you receive it.

Receiving your project and starting it right away is a stress reliever. It doesn't matter how much you've done within an hour or two, whether you're just staring at your assignment or ploughing through math problems. If you look at the project and try to make sense of it, you've done a huge favour to yourself. In addition, because you're attempting to finish the task immediately after receiving it, you're retaining better than at any other time.

I couldn't tell how many times that many people were stressed doing maths homework or any assignment due to not following this rule. It was a huge time saver for me to do this simple step. But with any simple action, any stage can take time to implement into your daily routine. Mark Rober, for example, would start editing at the very last minute. He would try to tell himself to begin editing the video at least 3 weeks before the due date, but his mind would say to him that he has a lot of time. So, he would rather be happy with whatever happens, and it's all good for him.

How I start my project is to take a look at it and all the information from it. For example, I have an English essay that asked me to compare Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice and how they contribute to familiar tropes in Regency England and achieving balance. The first thing I would find was the due date, which was the 6th of January. At the time of writing this blog, I have a month to finish this assignment. So I decided to divide the work into several days of writing chunks to lessen the stress. Now, I know what I should do to finish the assignment, and it leads to the next step.

Turn a project into a game with levels of progression.

Mark Rober was very fond of the Super Mario effect. You're trolled if you only know him about the Squirrel Ninja Course. The Super Mario effect was a psychological trick into how you frame learning. Instead of worrying about the failures from doing this one simple thing, you focus on the big picture. These failures were just mere lessons to work for the big picture. In Super Mario Bros., you play levels. These levels help you to progressively get better and get closer to facing the big picture, with a time limit of 400 seconds (as far as I know). Each level consisted of a path you must take to reach the destination, consisting of jumping, shooting fireballs, and collecting coins. And it would be best to play through levels to go farther in the game.

Although your assignment is no game, you should treat it as such. Treating things as challenges or games help us get motivated with a sense of purpose. These challenges are specific instructions to finish a part of the assignment. Because you're treating it as a game, you're more motivated to complete the assignment faster. So, how to do this?

For me, I divide the assignment into numerous yet manageable chunks. So, for example, regarding that English essay, I only have to write an outline of how I will approach the paper rather than finishing the assignment from scratch. And after I finish that outline, I can research and find evidence to support the prompt to fit in the method. The point is to divide the assignment into several things. These things must be specific to be understandable for you to complete them as fast as possible. So, instead of writing the essay, you write 4 sentences that relate to your essay prompt. Now, you don't have to be super stressed and can do the simple stuff while others are stuck. But there is one thing you should do.

Make your own work routine.

This step makes a real difference and can even change your work without doing the previous two actions. This is because this step falls into how you do the job. The last two steps fall into before you do the work. So, why am I bringing this up?

Well, there are many ways to work that can increase productivity and finish work faster. One way is the Pomodoro technique, which is the 25 minutes of work and 5 minutes of break and once every 4 tries, do a 15-30 minute break. Another way is the Eisenhower Matrix which uses a 4-box category to determine the importance of tasks, from the most urgent to absolutely do not. These things are supposed to make you more productive and more consistent with your workflow. Then, every time you come to work on an assignment, you have a plan ready to execute a task. Although these strategies are great, doing one of these techniques is only for some.

I couldn't trust the Eisenhower Matrix. Many of my essential tasks, like writing this blog, are either things to be delegated to others or something to do after doing the most urgent assignments. So there are reasons why I couldn't trust the Eisenhower Matrix. Still, this article isn't a rant about the Eisenhower Matrix. But I can use a part of it to incorporate it into my workflow, which helps me much better than without it. This incorporation is the main lesson. You must find a work routine that works for you, so you can be productive the best you can. And to do this, is to analyse your circumstances.

You have to consider the following things. First, are you still in school? What time do you start and end school? This question includes all club and sports activities because you cannot be on your phone most of the time, let alone do homework. How much homework do you receive in a day? What kinds of financial circumstances do you have? Do your parents need you to do housework with them? Do you have a part-time or a full-time job? What kinds of hobbies do you have? And how much sleep do you get? If you are poor, your family needs you every waking hour, and you have a lot of homework, you can only do the best for yourself. But you can set time limits and make a routine for a good chunk of you. Again, you must consider these questions to determine if you can make your work routine easier to finish assignments.

Conclusion

Finishing assignments in a systematic mater is hard work, but you have the brains to do it. With these three steps, I assure you that you can start with at least one of them, and you can see a difference in your workflow, even Mark Rober. But, of course, mastering these things take a lot of work, as does time management. You may have struggled with trying one of these, especially if you haven't learned anything from it. You should re-read this article as the foundation for your work routine and keep asking these questions. Every time, change a bit about how you do your work routine for the better. Although other articles tell you specific ways to work faster and more efficiently, this article is the backbone. And as always, thanks for reading.

Sources Used:

Rosenblum, Colin, et al. “The Full Truth about Mark Rober.” YouTube, YouTube, 7 Dec. 2022, www.youtube.com/watch?v=1t5oYKEn-1E.

Scroggs, Laura. “The Pomodoro Technique - Why It Works & How to Do It.” Todoist, 2022, https://todoist.com/productivity-methods/pomodoro-technique.