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My experience has been when I try to master a skill as fast as possible, I burn myself out and slow myself down. Slow is steady and steady is fast. It feels pa
by maxbond 3y ago
My experience has been when I try to master a skill as fast as possible, I burn myself out and slow myself down.
Slow is steady and steady is fast. It feels paradoxical but, at least in my experience, it just is what it is.
- jstummbillig 3y agoNo doubt, but somewhere between here and you dieing, I would assume that you semi-continuously revisit the progress per time and effort you put in and what you are getting out of it (maybe not so explicitly), and reconsider if "mastery" of that topic and as by your rules, is still a reasonable and worthwhile goal? Either you never change your mind on what you master, or there is a implicit process by which it is changed, and I would be very surprised to learn that time/effort/progress do not play a role in that calculation.
- maxbond 3y agoNot really. I'm not fussed about leaving things unfinished when I die. A few years ago I was deeply struck by an image of the late Grant Imahara's workbench [1]. It was cluttered with tools, notes, and unfinished business. That's what I expect my desk to look like when I die, too. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23830450 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23830450
- jstummbillig 3y agoI like that.