Re:Tired? The importance of letting ideas marinate and perco...
by randallsquared on Sunday September 28, 2008 @11:19AM
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I've done this, and find that it works really poorly for me. If I'm not going to bed at roughly the same time and getting up at roughly the same time, I just stay muddled all day, even when I'm technically getting ~8 hours. If I stay on a schedule, I wake up without an alarm after 6-7 hours and I'm fully awake all day.
Every once in a while in the past, when I was working on my own project, I've done it to the point where I would sleep from 2am to 1pm, and the next time living in the dark for a day due to going to bed around sunrise (5am) and waking up at sundown (6pm), and so on. Eventually, I would have a normal schedule again. :) This was when my only focus was on writing code for my software and working out, period. Since my software became better every week, and I grew stronger, bigger, and faster as well, my goals were pretty much met and I was happy.
I like my current life as a student, due to the social aspect of learning from, and working with, others. But I am nowhere near as productive at developing my own software on a daily basis nor working out as I was when those were my only two goals. However, I understand that it has only been a few weeks, and I will be able to figure out how to introduce software and personal development into my schedule as I get more used to the demands of my classes. And even though I won't be able to dedicate as much time as I could before, I have the experience and confidence to get in shape and create software more efficiently, as well as the benefit of a being around lots of potential users.