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Get up at 6am. Get kids ready for school. Help my wife with any chores around the house for a bit. Start working. Lift on my lunch break in my home gym. Back to work. Kids come home. Feed them. Help with homework. Do something with them outside weather permitting. Put them to bed, read to/with them. Get lunches ready for tomorrow. Load the dishwasher. Load the laundry. My turn to walk the dog. Be mentally and physica…
I’ve found that if I really want to learn something, I just get up an hour early, makes some coffee/tea and get to it. It’s the only thing I can control with any certainty. The quiet time while everyone is asleep provides a distraction free environment. I also like giving my most productive/energetic time to my own projects/learning, as opposed to work, but that is just me. After work time is for dinner, family, and…
>> I just get up an hour early, makes some coffee/tea and get to it. This works well for me for getting a headstart on the workday, but I can't seem to "learn" anything in either the first hour or so in the morning, or the last hour or so before I go to bed. Plus, with the latter, if it's anything interesting, it keeps me up at night.
Mornings are the only time I can learn what I want to learn and not what the man wants me to learn.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
On the (few) occasions when I go into the city for a customer meeting, the commuter rail takes "only" something over an hour but, really, we're talking something over two hours from getting up to walking into the office when one includes driving to the station with some slack, paying for parking, and then walking to the office/taking local subway. (Just driving takes about the same 2 hours.) A colleague of mine who l…
> if you don't miss one or two flights a year you're leaving too much slack Boy do I envy people who can live their life this way. I sure can't.
I’ve found that if I really want to learn something, I just get up an hour early, makes some coffee/tea and get to it. It’s the only thing I can control with any certainty. The quiet time while everyone is asleep provides a distraction free environment. I also like giving my most productive/energetic time to my own projects/learning, as opposed to work, but that is just me. After work time is for dinner, family, and…
After a few weeks of a study plan and the motivation fades I find it really hard to "learn" for more than a few hours a day, which I was able to do while working full time.
It probably depends on your financial state and other motivating factors as well. It was easier to be motivated when I was poor in college than as a 40 year old that could do whatever I wants whenever I want.
I’ve found that if I really want to learn something, I just get up an hour early, makes some coffee/tea and get to it. It’s the only thing I can control with any certainty. The quiet time while everyone is asleep provides a distraction free environment. I also like giving my most productive/energetic time to my own projects/learning, as opposed to work, but that is just me. After work time is for dinner, family, and…
Waking up early works but only if your kids don't have a variable time range, say 5:30 - 7:00, when they get up :)
Get up at 6am. Get kids ready for school. Help my wife with any chores around the house for a bit. Start working. Lift on my lunch break in my home gym. Back to work. Kids come home. Feed them. Help with homework. Do something with them outside weather permitting. Put them to bed, read to/with them. Get lunches ready for tomorrow. Load the dishwasher. Load the laundry. My turn to walk the dog. Be mentally and physica…