I think this varies considerably by person. Personally, I have 4 university degrees and I’ve never really felt the need to pay attention to my moods in anything like this way. I generally got good enough results by waiting for the last minute, which triggered the “this needs doing now” mood that was sufficient for my needs.
I agree that the return to “learning to navigate moods” varies by person.
It sounds to me, from your report, that you tend to be in moods conducive to learning. My sense is that there are many who are often in unproductive moods and many who aware that they spend too much time in unproductive moods. These people would find learning to navigate moods valuable.
When I need to learn something, I read about it and work problems. It’s not fundamentally different than getting anything else done. For me, that is. YMMV.
The key word on the above answer being “optimal”. It seemed to me like the post was saying “here’s one thing you can pay attention to to optimize your learning.” and you were replying “But I don’t pay attention to that and can still do learning.” which is essentially arguing against a point that the original post never made.
My point was that it varies by person. My subtext was that one should avoid the typical “nerd” error of going to significant lengths to optimize a mostly irrelevant variable, if like me you find it mostly irrelevant.
My point was that it varies by person. My subtext was that one should avoid the typical “nerd” error of going to significant lengths to optimize a mostly irrelevant variable, if like me you find it mostly irrelevant.
What kind of argument are you making here? Having 4 degrees sounds to me like evidence of not knowing what you want and thus wasting a lot of time in a degree that you don’t use afterwards.
I got my first 3 (B.S., M.S., Ph.D.) back in the 20th century and spent about 10 years in startups. And yes, the Ph.D. turned out to be a lot less marketable than expected, although I’m hardly the only one to have that problem. Fifteen years later I got another Master’s and have been gainfully employed ever since. But I definitely have plenty of experience in learning things.
I think this varies considerably by person. Personally, I have 4 university degrees and I’ve never really felt the need to pay attention to my moods in anything like this way. I generally got good enough results by waiting for the last minute, which triggered the “this needs doing now” mood that was sufficient for my needs.
I agree that the return to “learning to navigate moods” varies by person.
It sounds to me, from your report, that you tend to be in moods conducive to learning. My sense is that there are many who are often in unproductive moods and many who aware that they spend too much time in unproductive moods. These people would find learning to navigate moods valuable.
Do you find that you don’t have different states or moods?
I do, but I find the world often requires me to stay productively on task even when I’d rather not. We old people used to call this “self-discipline”.
I think that this and your original comment seem to kind of...be talking to a different post or something?
Like it didn’t seem like the original post was at all about being able to get things done, but more about optimizing learning.
When I need to learn something, I read about it and work problems. It’s not fundamentally different than getting anything else done. For me, that is. YMMV.
The key word on the above answer being “optimal”. It seemed to me like the post was saying “here’s one thing you can pay attention to to optimize your learning.” and you were replying “But I don’t pay attention to that and can still do learning.” which is essentially arguing against a point that the original post never made.
My point was that it varies by person. My subtext was that one should avoid the typical “nerd” error of going to significant lengths to optimize a mostly irrelevant variable, if like me you find it mostly irrelevant.
Makes sense.
What kind of argument are you making here? Having 4 degrees sounds to me like evidence of not knowing what you want and thus wasting a lot of time in a degree that you don’t use afterwards.
I got my first 3 (B.S., M.S., Ph.D.) back in the 20th century and spent about 10 years in startups. And yes, the Ph.D. turned out to be a lot less marketable than expected, although I’m hardly the only one to have that problem. Fifteen years later I got another Master’s and have been gainfully employed ever since. But I definitely have plenty of experience in learning things.