I overestimated my ability to complete the tasks I set out for the week. I am learning that writing clear and coherent text, or at least attempting to, takes much more time than I anticipate. I have also had a few slip ups with staying focused. One specific slip up was spending 2.5 hours yesterday watching El Chapo (in Spanish with Spanish subtitles) instead of doing only my 1 hour of allocated Spanish study1. Another general slip up is I am still burning a significant amount of time doing ~nothing2.
My poor planning and faulty focus causes me to make the following changes to my Week 1 plan:
i) I’ve currently done 4/20 hours of saltmine work. Right now I’m planning to hit 12 hours of my intended 20.
ii) I will spend minimal time this weekend setting up my apartment.
iii) My post on the understanding of the what and why of V will be incomplete. I reread The V manual genesis and learned that I have only a cursory understanding of the importance of V. I am still digesting the second footnote.
iv) My annotations on asciilifeform’s v.py will be delayed until next week.
- I learned that I have reached a point where I can enjoy a show in Spanish. Watching tv in Spanish is not rigorous study, but I take notes while I watch the show. I pause to digest phrases I do not understand, and then I jot them down. [↩]
- Wasting time in emotional thought loops, hesitating between two options of what to do and just stalling, doing mindless activities. [↩]
The “doing nothing” is way more important and more of a slip up than 2.5 hours on actually interacting with Spanish instead of rigid 1 hour. So it should have been mentioned FIRST. The order of items in an enumeration is not random!
Comment by Diana Coman — October 19, 2019 @ 7:16 am