This is something I’ve recognized in myself many times and try to override it. It’s sometimes difficult disambiguating between being too tired to expend energy, intuitively feeling like it’s going to take too long to grok the concept so I should go back to working on other things, and just trying to avoid the mental effort required to grok the concept. Generally, I just try to default to push through every time.
At worst, I’ll add it to my “questions to answer / concepts to grok” page in my notetaking app. Eventually I am getting to them. However, I’ve noticed that pushing through and taking time to understand the concepts/jargon in the moment is usually the right decision. When I do put it aside, I regret having not taken the time to learn sooner.
This is something I’ve recognized in myself many times and try to override it. It’s sometimes difficult disambiguating between being too tired to expend energy, intuitively feeling like it’s going to take too long to grok the concept so I should go back to working on other things, and just trying to avoid the mental effort required to grok the concept. Generally, I just try to default to push through every time.
At worst, I’ll add it to my “questions to answer / concepts to grok” page in my notetaking app. Eventually I am getting to them. However, I’ve noticed that pushing through and taking time to understand the concepts/jargon in the moment is usually the right decision. When I do put it aside, I regret having not taken the time to learn sooner.