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If you have an extremely good textbook with exercises: 1) Every weekday 30min uninterrupted study at a specific time, preferably in the morning. Don't miss, rain or shine. Take weekends off, though. 2) Work in a strict linear fashion: read a chapter, then solve all of that chapter's exercises in order without skipping any, and only then allow yourself to peek at the next chapter. Don't "take a first pass through the…
If you have an extremely good textbook with exercises: 1) Every weekday 30min uninterrupted study at a specific time, preferably in the morning. Don't miss, rain or shine. Take weekends off, though. 2) Work in a strict linear fashion: read a chapter, then solve all of that chapter's exercises in order without skipping any, and only then allow yourself to peek at the next chapter. Don't "take a first pass through the…
This is your secret.
There is no methodology for how to waste your life better - you haven't mentioned your goal a single time. Learning without a goal is for idiots and public education, created by idiots for idiots.
Figure out what problem you want to solve in this world, in this short lifetime you have. Specializing in a field and doing something worthwhile will take at least 10 years, so assuming you're in your 20s, you have one or two chances to do something worthwhile in your lifetime before you're old and finished (everyone after 40).
One more thing - you have 2-4 hours of actual brain-activity in you, so do the napkin math, you have far less time to do real brain-stuff than you think, because you'll have to work for a living and most work demands you spend your brain-activity on stupid worthless shit such as building websites or another phone app that does the same thing 10 other apps do.
Knowing that, your #1 goal should be avoiding that scenario at all costs. That likely involves attending a highly ranked University to increase your chances of getting to work on research. Knowing that, there should be no time left to self study and your original question becomes meaningless.
This is not a problem with you, its a problem with how poorly organised your career is. Why do you need to know 30 new things at once?
The internet tries to turn information into water, like a firehose. You gotta turn down the water pressure until its useful and aim it at something that needs doing. Why rupture an organ drinking it all at once or slice a hole down the middle of your established work tools with a high pressure jet?
Theories are tools, add them one by one, so you remember how to use them.
I'm hoping my reply is more helpful than it sounds at first glance... This is one of those questions where I read and then exclaim (rhetorically), "what's wrong with people?!" Don't take this the wrong way, I often exclaim this. You are quite possibly in the majority and I'm the odd one. To me it has always seemed inherently clear that the way to approach life is to do something if you enjoy it. If you stop enjoying…
Unfortunate for me, my street smarts and enthusiasm doesn't help me in achieving my next dream.
I would love to work for a specific big company but without structured learning, i will not beat that shitty interview barrier.
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If you like TIS-100 and similar games, check out MHRD (available on Steam and itch.io). It teaches you a simplified version of hardware description language that you'd use to synthesize stuff on an FPGA or ASIC. You start out using NAND gates to build foundational logic gates (AND, OR, etc.), and gradually work your way up to building stuff like I/O multiplexers, memory, an ALU, and finally a working CPU using the bu…
any recommendations for games related to Computer Science, Data Structures, Algorithms, etc.? I have already tried human resource machine and 7 billion humans, but got bored after a while?
I'm hoping my reply is more helpful than it sounds at first glance... This is one of those questions where I read and then exclaim (rhetorically), "what's wrong with people?!" Don't take this the wrong way, I often exclaim this. You are quite possibly in the majority and I'm the odd one. To me it has always seemed inherently clear that the way to approach life is to do something if you enjoy it. If you stop enjoying…
I’m sympathetic to the OP, because at times I feel the same way. I want to become proficient in new skills but sometimes I feel I’m doing it in an inefficient roundabout way.
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I'm in the same boat as you, except that I classify most games that I enjoy as type 1 fun. Mentally taxing, frustrating, making the victory so much sweeter. This, learning "hard things" is type 1 fun. Until it isn't. And then I do something else. I'm also "ADHD." Quotes because after 30 some years living with the diagnosis (and reconfirmed, both by others and myself), I still don't really know what it means. Somethin…
This is my biggest struggle right now. I am very similar in "nature" to you and the OP you replied to. I just cannot get myself to do hard things ONLY because they are hard. I am young and struggling to find my way. Thanks for sharing your perspective. I have always thought something is wrong with me. But maybe I am just wired that way. I can still immerse myself in really hard things but only if I enjoy it.
I'm hoping my reply is more helpful than it sounds at first glance... This is one of those questions where I read and then exclaim (rhetorically), "what's wrong with people?!" Don't take this the wrong way, I often exclaim this. You are quite possibly in the majority and I'm the odd one. To me it has always seemed inherently clear that the way to approach life is to do something if you enjoy it. If you stop enjoying…
I'm mostly the same way. I think people go to school and get the idea deeply embedded in them that they need to have homework and proper study time or they're not learning. Yeah, there's tons to learn about computer science, but you don't need to learn it all. Learn what interests you, and if you really need a job, learn what will get you a job. Personally I go for smaller coding exercises, things like exercism.io, s…