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Right now, I'm learning math. I met a PhD via Discord who is giving me problems to work and checking my solutions. It's been quite fun so far, working on Real A
by dorchadas 7y ago
Right now, I'm learning math. I met a PhD via Discord who is giving me problems to work and checking my solutions. It's been quite fun so far, working on Real Analysis and Abstract Algebra.
I'm also doing baking; baked my first loaf of bread yesterday. Really interested to learn (and eat!) more.
I'm tempted to pick up a cheap instrument and learn one as well, or delve back into Python some more. Or drawing. My main issue is focusing now, sadly. Any tips there would be appreciated.
- justwalt 7y agoI have a similar problem. I do what interests me in the moment and I don’t make myself feel bad when I don’t make the progress I wanted on something else. I think I’m happiest that way.
- hhsuey 7y agoMy advice would be to define in multiple realms what you consider to be strongly focused, while both realizable and healthy in the long-term.
- behnamoh 7y agoI'm curious, how could someone find a PhD/researcher on Discord, esp. for this kind of purpose?
- jaw 7y agoFocus has been an issue for me too. I think it helps to view yourself as having a limited number of focus 'slots', but to view each focus as just a medium-term commitment (a few months or years). So e.g. you're not choosing an instrument _instead_ of drawing, you're just choosing to learn the instrument _first_. Setting specific goals for each month, which I track on Trello, has helped me a lot. It encourages me to make concrete progress and not tackle too many things at once, but reduces FOMO since I know I can always go a totally different direction the next month if I want. (I blogged a little about focus: https://brokensandals.net/three-books-on-focus/ https://brokensandals.net/three-books-on-focus/)