Re:Ask HN: How do you manage your learning while being busy ...
by brudgers on Monday May 04, 2020 @09:41AM
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[random remarks from the internet]
Student/non-student is a high impedance mental model. High impedance when it comes to life-long learning because the student is always directed toward short term goals. Not just tonight's homework, the test next week and the required course. On the scale of adult life, even a four year degree is short.
But so much can be learned in four years. Years are the scale of life-long learning. Life-long learning means that sometimes life is going to get in the way. It will get in the way inevitably because we change as we grow and we didn't stop growing when we walked across the stage in a funny cap and baggy clothes.
With a bit of average luck there are sixty or seventy years of learning left and that's time to learn deeply and create things that elicit "How the hell did I do that?" when looking back five or ten years later. Good luck.
Student/non-student is a high impedance mental model. High impedance when it comes to life-long learning because the student is always directed toward short term goals. Not just tonight's homework, the test next week and the required course. On the scale of adult life, even a four year degree is short.
But so much can be learned in four years. Years are the scale of life-long learning. Life-long learning means that sometimes life is going to get in the way. It will get in the way inevitably because we change as we grow and we didn't stop growing when we walked across the stage in a funny cap and baggy clothes.
With a bit of average luck there are sixty or seventy years of learning left and that's time to learn deeply and create things that elicit "How the hell did I do that?" when looking back five or ten years later. Good luck.