Archer Newton

Getting Back into Having a Deep Life

Hi everyone! Recently I've been spending a bit more time listening to Cal Newport's podcast, Deep Questions with Cal Newport. In recent weeks, I've had the opportunity to begin incorporating some of his ideas more into my life so that I can live that

My Growing Interest into Biohacking for Increased Performance

Biohacking has and is changing my life. However, I've only recently realised that a lot of my self-learning fits into the category of 'biohacking' (lol), although I don't necessarily like its naming. Taking control of your health, both physical and mental, isn't always necessarily

How Much Should You Study or Work Every Day?

It's an extremely common question, but like many other cases, it depends. The problem is, we suck at making objective and accurate decisions. With all our cognitive biases, our ability to deal with uncertainty also sucks. So the best way we can gain more

Reflections from my Yearly Retreat

Hi everyone! One of the biggest things that I've decided for this year is to have three clear goals in mind: Exercise at least 3 times a week (for at least 45 minutes)Certain Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) for my business (omitted from

How Mentoring has Changed My Life

Hi everyone, While I've spent some time really crunching down on some of my recent New Years goals; growing my business and team, helping more students, I've forced myself again to pursue more discomfort and personal growth. I've been meeting with multiple coaches and

NOW NOT LATER - CONQUER THOSE NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTIONS

Hi everyone, Happy New Year's Eve!! Here are my thoughts on approaching the new year. “The best time to start anything was yesterday, and the second-best time to get started is today.”This is almost always true, especially with New Year’s resolutions. Waiting

I've had a change of mind - Generalist vs Specialist

Hi everyone, I know I've been away for a few weeks now! With the conclusion of my 2nd-year med school exams I decided to relax a little bit more since it was the most I've ever crammed before. Fortunately, this went very well and

I have the most time in exam season

Hi everyone, Exam season for me is quite interesting. It's probably my least busiest time during the semester. I've set time aside for the exams and reduced the number of commitments that I have significantly. Like my last newsletter, I'm still feeling pretty lost

Opportunity Cost vs Leverage

Hi everyone, Wow, wow, wow! I'm writing this after having a session with my mentor and I have so many thoughts and ideas flowing through my brain - all around opportunity cost and leverage. Opportunity cost is the simple idea that by choosing one

What's harder than learning how to study?

Hi everyone, This year I've learnt lots when it comes to the systems that I depend on. Personally, I've found that it's been easier to learn about how to learn/study than it is to master effective time management, despite having so much practice

Efficiency vs Rushing

Hi everyone! I think this is a pretty important reminder (even for me) so that we don't end up spending more time fixing unnecessary problems. No one cares about the person who does a million things and none of them well.This is one

How to work non-stop (almost)

Hi everyone, Time has been rushing past. Next week I’m likely to run into the busiest week of my life I’d say. I’m going to be all-in with helping my Year 12 SACE students at my exam masterclasses and help them

Consistency is Everything

Hi everyone, I just wanted to share my thoughts today. I’ve been applying what I’ve learnt from my coach since last week and it’s made me feel so much more in control, despite having just as much work to juggle. The

The Revived Time Management Hack I Always Need

Hi everyone, Wow! What a week! There’s been that much going on, so I felt the need to get in touch with my productivity coach again. There is always more to learn and investing in this is so important for me. Every time

My Spring Reflection

Hi everyone, While I’ve never really taken the time to do spring cleaning (lol) I am pretty big on taking the time to re-evaluate my goals and strategies every quarter and half of the year. This is so important to me because we

Never Miss Twice

Hi everyone, I’ve finally gotten back into the flow of keeping up with this newsletter, through using an accountability buddy, time scheduling and my trusty Eisenhower matrix. I feel re-energised with my new Amazing Marvin workflow (that I’ve spent at least 5

The quickest way i learn

Hi everyone, Again, I’ve been reminded of a breakthrough - the value of mentoring. Learning from those who have already achieved who you want to become is incredibly valuable. The investment in these sorts of relationships is always high but the return on

I'm back

Hi everyone, I have really become the culprit of falling off consistency here! I took a break because things got really busy with uni, but now that I’m in lockdown I have found myself some extra time. Please reply and let me know

Gaining freedom

Hi everyone, I wanted to share with you some of the great sense of freedom I’ve felt by getting ahead and planning, and the biggest thing I’ve learnt that you can use too. When I was younger I thought I could just

Motivation-Dependent Systems are Failure-Dependent Systems

Welcome back! If you checked out last week’s newsletter, I spoke a lot about how we can have a healthier relationship with motivation. We should welcome motivation when it comes, but not miss it when it’s absent. But the question becomes, what

Why I do what I do

Hi everyone, Over the past week, I’ve thought a lot about what I’m working towards but specifically why my work is important to me. This is something I lose sight of at times when I get engrossed in the work. Taking a

Why Motivation is like our Neurons and Nerves

Hey guys! Halfway through the first week of getting back into the routine of university and my interest has been quite piqued! We’re getting a lot deeper into some of the content including A&P and it’s a whole lot of

What I’m Taking into My 2nd Year of Med School

Hey guys! Med school begins next week so I thought I’d share what I’ve done to prepare this week. Story Time!Embarking on second year means that it’s going to be harder than first year. This is expected. The bar always

Avoiding the Valley of Disappointment

Welcome back! It’s only my second newsletter and I’ve already changed the layout - hope you like it! I’ll try and keep it short again, so let’s get started. Story Time!So a lot of you are already back at

Never-Ending Valley of Despair

Hi everyone! 👋 Welcome to my first official newsletter. I'm hoping to keep it short and spicy, so let's get to it. I hope to talk lots about studying, productivity, mindset and lifestyle. The focus will be on studying for a while. Since the school

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My name’s Archer, I'm a YouTuber, third year medical student, programmer and tutor! I love learning about the things that can help us live more intentional lives with greater control and freedom.

This means I'm quite interested in sharing what I learn about studying, productivity, tech and entrepreneurship. This is the central haven for all of my writing and email me at [email protected] and I'll respond ASAP.

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