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Ask HN: Emotion hacks? How do you work despite crummy love/life things going on?

Have you had slow-to-resolve real life problems that made it emotionally difficult to focus on your job, startup, or coding?What techniques did you find to make it easier to focus despite the problems? (e.g. looming divorce, girlfriend breaking-up, death in the family, loss of great friends, etc.)Obviously it's important to deal with those things in your own full way to heal/resolve them, but...

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I studied CS and I got past my "intro to stats" class with only a passing familiarity with the subject and no deep understanding (aside from the probability aspects of the course).

The professor was very poor overall. I was able to cram enough to do well, but I retained very little after the final. I would love a deep understanding built from the foundations-- the coursework we had was a lot more obtuse and "take my word for it".

In a sense, I felt I got a better foundation for statistics from a freshman sociology class than from the Math professor.