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I tend to make a certain amount of time for something consistent every day (like, usually about 30 min on Khan for the last 6 months trying to level up my math

I tend to make a certain amount of time for something consistent every day (like, usually about 30 min on Khan for the last 6 months trying to level up my math skills) and then a certain amount of time for random playtime (like my safari books only subscription) where I just do whatever I feel like doing for that time. My life got a lot better when I just committed to doing certain things every day (yoga and making my bed, for instance). So I just added "study" to those things. Another pro tip-- have kids when you're 23... I'm 40 and now they are mostly grown so I have a lot of free time LOL An hour of yoga a day is a lot less of a commitment than it would have been when I was 28, had two small kids, and was in grad school. That's a joke, but the kernel of truth in it is: you don't have to learn everything now. With luck you will live to be 70+ years old and so the benefit of even 15-20 a day of study really adds up over several decades.

elymar 8y ago
What strategy are you using to "level up" with Khan? I'm curious because I'd like to do this as well but am not sure where to focus.
- scarecrowbob 8y ago
  Well, I just started with the Algebra II classes cause that's about where my math skills were at... I've had calc I and discrete math in college, plus a lot of formal logic training but that was a long time ago. I was doing the "mission" style where they give you almost random tasks, and then you do mastery challenges... I feel like that got me a good into understanding a bunch of trig, matrix, and vector things that I hadn't understood before. However, I just wrapped up my precalc with that and decided to move on because the last couple of topics were boring and they kept sending me mastery challenges of tedious stuff. So for the calc I switched from the missions style to the lesson style because it feels more directed and "completist", and I've just been doing lectures and exercises. In the last couple of days I've gotten about half way through the material on limits. When I finish the calc, then I will do the statistics, and the multivariate calculus. At that point, I think that I will be ready to move into college level classes online for linear and whatever else I think I want. My larger interests are on one hand machine learning and AI and on the other hand, audio electronics for music... my math skills have held me back in electronics and I feel like if I am going to find anything useful in applying
bg24 8y ago
You forgot to add that you also have a level or discipline and you have built the ability to focus on long term goals:-) Simple but powerful response, btw.

elymar 8y ago

What strategy are you using to "level up" with Khan? I'm curious because I'd like to do this as well but am not sure where to focus.

scarecrowbob 8y ago
Well, I just started with the Algebra II classes cause that's about where my math skills were at... I've had calc I and discrete math in college, plus a lot of formal logic training but that was a long time ago. I was doing the "mission" style where they give you almost random tasks, and then you do mastery challenges... I feel like that got me a good into understanding a bunch of trig, matrix, and vector things that I hadn't understood before. However, I just wrapped up my precalc with that and decided to move on because the last couple of topics were boring and they kept sending me mastery challenges of tedious stuff. So for the calc I switched from the missions style to the lesson style because it feels more directed and "completist", and I've just been doing lectures and exercises. In the last couple of days I've gotten about half way through the material on limits. When I finish the calc, then I will do the statistics, and the multivariate calculus. At that point, I think that I will be ready to move into college level classes online for linear and whatever else I think I want. My larger interests are on one hand machine learning and AI and on the other hand, audio electronics for music... my math skills have held me back in electronics and I feel like if I am going to find anything useful in applying

bg24 8y ago

You forgot to add that you also have a level or discipline and you have built the ability to focus on long term goals:-) Simple but powerful response, btw.