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+1000. I have too many interests and cannot focus on one thing. Lack of a strong hobby (except computers) in my childhood could be a reason for it.

g_delgado14 8y ago
I don't think that's the reason. It may be the internet itself and our low-attention-span-culture. I highly recommend you check out "The Shallows: What The Internet Is Doing To Our Brains", by Nicholas Carr [0]. [0] - https://www.amazon.ca/Shallows-What-Internet-Doing-Brains/dp/0393339750 https://www.amazon.ca/Shallows-What-Internet-Doing-Brains/dp... --- edit: grammar
- Zyst 8y ago
  Ironically something I'm interested in, which will further distract from 'A', 'B', and 'C'.
jmts 8y ago
I have found it somewhat useful to write all the things I want to do somewhere that I trust, and select a few of them to work on right now that I am either most interested in, or feel will give me the greatest benefit in the future. I give myself permission to shuffle those projects as necessary, by try to limit them to just a couple at a time so they don't become unmanageable. I have huge lists of ideas for projects (everything from designing my own index cards, to a ridiculous idea for demonstrating the curvature of the earth), lists of books that I want to read, lists of lists of books that I might find interesting, lists of music to listen to, and smaller lists of things like places to go, things to see, and skills to learn. By keeping track of the things outside my head, it seems to declutter my everyday thoughts and I can focus on doing meaningful work on the few things I choose to work on right now. Obviously projects and reading are two things that are important to me, so I try to do a bit of each every day when possible. It doesn't always work, but it works better than when I had no such system.
- mrfusion 8y ago
  Can I have some ideas? I’m actually having the opposite problem..
  - true_tuna 8y ago
    Here take some of mine: Start playing with machine learning. https://developers.google.com/machine-learning/crash-course/ https://developers.google.com/machine-learning/crash-course/ https://medium.com/deep-learning-turkey/google-colab-free-gpu-tutorial-e113627b9f5d https://medium.com/deep-learning-turkey/google-colab-free-gp... Make some fun IoT projects with a raspberry pi. https://pi-hole.net https://pi-hole.net https://blog.adafruit.com/2018/07/13/how-to-make-a-raspberry-pi-night-vision-cctv-camera/ https://blog.adafruit.com/2018/07/13/how-to-make-a-raspberry... Buy a cheap car with known (but not massive) problems and Learn how to fix them. Read or watch Richard Fineman’s physics lectures. http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu
aj7 8y ago
Me too. Thank god I’m retired.

g_delgado14 8y ago

I don't think that's the reason. It may be the internet itself and our low-attention-span-culture. I highly recommend you check out "The Shallows: What The Internet Is Doing To Our Brains", by Nicholas Carr [0]. [0] - https://www.amazon.ca/Shallows-What-Internet-Doing-Brains/dp/0393339750 https://www.amazon.ca/Shallows-What-Internet-Doing-Brains/dp... --- edit: grammar

Zyst 8y ago
Ironically something I'm interested in, which will further distract from 'A', 'B', and 'C'.

jmts 8y ago

I have found it somewhat useful to write all the things I want to do somewhere that I trust, and select a few of them to work on right now that I am either most interested in, or feel will give me the greatest benefit in the future. I give myself permission to shuffle those projects as necessary, by try to limit them to just a couple at a time so they don't become unmanageable. I have huge lists of ideas for projects (everything from designing my own index cards, to a ridiculous idea for demonstrating the curvature of the earth), lists of books that I want to read, lists of lists of books that I might find interesting, lists of music to listen to, and smaller lists of things like places to go, things to see, and skills to learn. By keeping track of the things outside my head, it seems to declutter my everyday thoughts and I can focus on doing meaningful work on the few things I choose to work on right now. Obviously projects and reading are two things that are important to me, so I try to do a bit of each every day when possible. It doesn't always work, but it works better than when I had no such system.

mrfusion 8y ago
Can I have some ideas? I’m actually having the opposite problem..
- true_tuna 8y ago
  Here take some of mine: Start playing with machine learning. https://developers.google.com/machine-learning/crash-course/ https://developers.google.com/machine-learning/crash-course/ https://medium.com/deep-learning-turkey/google-colab-free-gpu-tutorial-e113627b9f5d https://medium.com/deep-learning-turkey/google-colab-free-gp... Make some fun IoT projects with a raspberry pi. https://pi-hole.net https://pi-hole.net https://blog.adafruit.com/2018/07/13/how-to-make-a-raspberry-pi-night-vision-cctv-camera/ https://blog.adafruit.com/2018/07/13/how-to-make-a-raspberry... Buy a cheap car with known (but not massive) problems and Learn how to fix them. Read or watch Richard Fineman’s physics lectures. http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu

aj7 8y ago

Me too. Thank god I’m retired.