Re:Ask HN: How do you stop yourself from stagnating?
by muzani on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @08:58PM
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What I do is to force myself to do something painful every day. Make it a habit.
It can be push ups. It can be a morning or evening run. It could be taxes or cancelling a subscription. It could be doing algorithms or reading the white paper of a random crypto.
Sometimes it's optimization. Find something you repeat a lot and optimize that. It could be doing laundry or showering faster. It could be learning to read faster, memorize better. Maybe automating daily tasks through something like IFTTT. One of the best things I did in 2017 was getting my typos for capital letters, semicolons, and brackets down by 50%.
The nice part about being comfortable is that you don't have to focus on survival and have room to do painful things.
So just work on that one painful thing for half an hour each day.
It can be push ups. It can be a morning or evening run. It could be taxes or cancelling a subscription. It could be doing algorithms or reading the white paper of a random crypto.
Sometimes it's optimization. Find something you repeat a lot and optimize that. It could be doing laundry or showering faster. It could be learning to read faster, memorize better. Maybe automating daily tasks through something like IFTTT. One of the best things I did in 2017 was getting my typos for capital letters, semicolons, and brackets down by 50%.
The nice part about being comfortable is that you don't have to focus on survival and have room to do painful things.
So just work on that one painful thing for half an hour each day.