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.
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.