On July 29, 2016 5:00:15 AM EDT, Zenaan Harkness <zen@freedbms.net> wrote:
Do you people have some methods for concentration? I have little time after works and one day i start to develop a c++ game i started months ago and never looked back, another day i try to learn ruby by adding random functionality to an online todo-listish project which will obviously reach a dead end eventually, some other days i try pic stuff on breadboards... When i take a timeout at work, i try to read papers on network protocols, and sometimes bitcoin, and sometimes other crypto stuff... It does give a momentary satisfaction, but the thing is, nothing ever gets done in the end. I started to think that being able to reach knowledge
On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 08:00:01AM +0200, Bastiani Fortress wrote: this
easily (smartphones, wikipedia, sci-hub, etc.) perhaps isn't a good thing, and diverts focus.
Indeed, in an age where we have unlimited access to information, the hardest thing can be deciding what to say no to, what to ignore.
So for success, hone your skill of determining what to ignore, as early and quickly as possible, so that the limited time you do spend on anything is spent on worthwhile things. </polemically stating the obvious>
I don't think Zen's point can be stressed enough... There is literally so much out there, if you really want to learn something well it's important to develop a little tunnel vision, verging on myopia, until you have sufficient mastery... At which point you can branch back out to a broad view and see how your new understanding of <whatever> informs future research & learning endeavors... I have this exact problem myself. John -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.