> What can I do to get out of the rut? A few ideas, not sure if they'll work. I hope it'll get you inspired! Idea 1: do it for two hours or a bit more, and wh

> What can I do to get out of the rut? A few ideas, not sure if they'll work. I hope it'll get you inspired! Idea 1: do it for two hours or a bit more, and when you do it, simply ask: what do I like about this right now? If the answer is "nothing" rephrase it to: "what's the coolest thing about this project right now?" Be a pure positive person. I'm a realist normally, but when it comes to becoming motivated to something, I simply ignore the negativity to the point of being irrational about it, because the power of positivity makes me feel motivated (and biased, but I guess that bias helps with motivation too :) ). Idea 2: consistency is key, it's better to do it 4 days for 2 hours than 8 hours on one day. The reason for that is that you want it to slowly but surely become the top idea in your mind (see Paul Graham's post on that [1]). You'll also have more creative thoughts about it. Idea 3: try to get other people involved. Heck, I'm up for a 30 min. call to hear about what you're learning as I have a passing interest in ML and read http://neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com http://neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com and made this for fun [2]. My email is in my profile. Good luck! Also, some ML awesomeness for that fun hype factor :) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrIbQ0pIFOg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrIbQ0pIFOg - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSVrKK_uHoU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSVrKK_uHoU - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6wn8zMRlVE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6wn8zMRlVE (15 min. probably in total) [1] http://www.paulgraham.com/top.html http://www.paulgraham.com/top.html [2] https://github.com/melvinroest/Interactive-Neural-Networks https://github.com/melvinroest/Interactive-Neural-Networks