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This! Access to the collective knowledge of humanity equates with uncountable paths not taken! I know someone with 4TB of textbooks and course lectures. Prob
by vinchuco 10y ago
This!
Access to the collective knowledge of humanity equates with uncountable paths not taken!
I know someone with 4TB of textbooks and course lectures.
Probably the most important habit learned during my (first year of) PhD:
1. Make a list of books you want to read
2. Break up each into reasonable blocks (#_pages/#_chapters is a good unit) and write as checkboxes to cross off to keep you motivated
3. After filling up two pages or more, reconsider step 1
Another observation, for those not bored yet: Planning each minute will give you anxiety, planning every decade will not be as effective. Multiple timescales can help.
- mindcrime 10y agoI know someone with 4TB of textbooks and course lectures. Heh, is your friend me? :-) OK, not sure if I have 4TB of stuff or not, but if I totalled up all the books, videos, etc. I have downloaded and stored here and there, I'm pretty sure it's in the TB range. The most frustrating part, to me, is the lack of time to read/study everything I want to study. I think that's one reason the Coursera classes work so well for me - they force me to pick something and focus on it to (near) exclusion for a defined period of time. Otherwise, I tend to wander around a bit too much. :-(