Posts tagged "personal"

A pattern I keep running into across very different parts of learning: every real shortcut turns out to just move the difficulty somewhere less visible, not remove it.

The advice is simple to state and uncomfortable to actually follow, for reasons that have less to do with time and more to do with ego.

Motivation runs out. What's replaced it is a small set of habits that make studying a hard subject less dependent on how I happen to feel that day.