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"Whom the gods wish to destroy, they give unlimited resources." In your case, educational resources. It's difficult to say because of the details you omitted, but whatever it is you're trying to do is probably the wrong thing. If you need to cover 4 highly technical subjects in 4 months, then you've made a wrong turn somewhere and you need to stop and re-evaluate things. No matter how important it seems, no matter ho…
You are saying yes to waaayyyy too much.
Once your brain is less addicted to distraction in general it might be able to focus on other topics for longer periods. When you can focus, you'll delve further into the topics you mentioned and have higher chances to stick with it.
Basically, you aren't getting in the zone on any of the topics you mentioned because of distractions.
Getting in the zone is what locks you down on a topic, and you aren't.
"information paralysis" Is that a problem? So, may be it is not? May be it's an opportunity) Let's solve it)
Imagine very-very big mindMap (like that, but much bigger http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-QCtHZYRX_0w/UcbhaceT4MI/AAAAAAAAAW...). Imagine, each word in there is a single knowledge. All this knowledges are ether unbounded from each other or bounded in small groups and all placed chaotically. This is how it looks right now in most of the human minds and most of the Internet. So, would it be great, if we will create website which could bring order to all this knowledges through crowd-sourcing? And each knowledge will have bunch of links to courses, books, videos etc. It will be core structure to any useful information. This is the idea. I'm thinking about this sometimes. Just an Idea. Yet.
I could share more information, if someone will be interested in this)
Been there, done that (over and over again). You don't have time for everything. Therefore, you must choose what to do, but also you must choose what not to do. That is the hard part - choosing what to let go. Once you did that, the rest is (comparatively) easy. Ideally, devote yourself to one subject and immerse yourself in it. Stay focused, refuse to do anything else. You'll have distractions, you'll doubt your cho…
This can help in this paralyzed kind of state, since it is harder to keep distractions away (and keep 100% focused on one task) for 25 minutes, than for a whole day ... and in those few minutes in between, you are allowed to distract yourself for a very short time.
This worked for me like nothing else.
