The Consistency Effect

Consistency is the quality of performing or behaving in a same way. Being consistent in a work can be said like doing the work uniformly and regularly. In simple words, consistency means steady continuity. Everyone knows the value of regularity. When a hard work is practiced everyday, it becomes easier to do. Being consistent in studying can even transform an average to a topper. Now consistency is a key quality that is vital in a student's life. It plays crucial role in self growth and skill development. Being consistent doesn't assure success but not being consistent assures failure. You can understand it's potential by the fact that most of you never learned the national anthem by rote. Rather just repeating it once a day made you remember it. Little actions can make big changes. Why do we need changes? Imagine a story where the main character is very lazy, never works, relaxes the whole time and plays games and wastes time watching unproductive videos on social media. By the end, the character doesn't change. He never tries to change. Finally he perishes because he was unfit to survive. This would be a silly story. But what if you were him. Will you ever want to be? No! Everyone likes main characters who is successful by the end. These characters have immense willpower. All you need is willpower to be consistent in every aspect. Start taking actions instead of thinking to start. I know that every beautiful change takes time. But don't be impatient. Learn to wait, which is another good quality. Believe in the process instead of chasing the result. You must not quit in middle of the process. People, nowadays, have became very unfocused. They don't even feel like reading 4-5 pages of productive books. Short irrelevant videos are preferred instead. This is natural. Unproductive but recreational activities stimulate dopamine in our brain which gives us pleasure to do it more. Dopamine is a feel good hormone. Some of these activities are the major hindrance in our process of change. Distractions like smartphones waste a lot of time in our daily life. Smartphones are one of the biggest distraction for students. Nowadays people live their life inside the screens. It's adviced not to give more importance to snapstreak over your daily study streak. Learn to maintain consistency. It is the formula to expertise the subject you are weak at. It's always true that small actions can cause big impact. Now the impact can be good or bad depending on the action. Bad in sense, when a person consumes drug very little every day he becomes addicted to that. After a time his brain will want more drugs. When he gets more pleasure he will desire more and more until he becomes ill. Same goes with smartphone addiction, which is apparently a big issue among teenagers. Thus, keep an eye over your actions. Try to eliminate your negative actions because no matter how less you do it, it can lead to big troublesome. Every habit is the seed which will grow into the tree of your character. Water it consistently and the fruits of the tree will be sweet.