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http://calnewport.com/blog/2010/10/16/the-passion-trap-how-the-search-for-your-lifes-work-is-making-your-working-life-miserable/ http://calnewport.com/blog/2011/08/11/the-career-craftsman-manifesto/ highly recommend reading so good they can't ignore you by Cal Newport :) what he recommends is that you should try to be passionate about what you do but that the research shows that you first become passionate about it after you have become really good at rarer and valuable skills so basically just pick anything you find interesting and that you feel like could create an impact and where you work with people that its people you like being around with there is of course more to it than this but that's why I recommend reading the book

i think its help full to write your thought process down on paper

maybe understand the information at the level of an aha moment usually you will remeber it longer and then try to recall the information without any reference(its called active recall which should be a really effective method for rembering information) you could write your notes in a quiz formart to support active recall (see if you can answer the question first without looking at the answer only look at the answer when you have recalled the information it should have the same effect even if you make the questions your self just as long as the answer isn't in the question the same notes could be help full later when you need the information it could also support something called spaced repetition which is an other help full technique for long term memory)

i am not 100% sure if this is the solution but if its because of productivity maybe check out cal newports deep work and how to become a straigt a student there is an example in deep work that when someone used routines and rituals to minimize willpower and focused as hard as possible with zero distractions 90 minuts a day in the morning he could do in around 3 weeks what normal toke him a year if not maybe this could be useful https://www.actualized.org/articles/the-art-of-solving-problems-permanently

https://www.actualized.org/articles/the-art-of-solving-problems-permanently it won't be easy but those are some extremely useful techniques i recomend reading the road less traveled by scott m peck it has some really useful information

@John maybe you could do things on a schedule or organize the things you want to do into a project you could also schedule every minute of the day

Just pick anything you find interesting and you feel like you are making an impact but it also important that it isn't something where you work with people you don't like and after you have chosen something then try to become extremely good at it a few suggestions: fiction author, non fiction author, animator, painter, coding, scientist, math i recommend reading so good they can't ignore you by cal newport

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_neural_network https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_brain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_neuron_model https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_science might be relevant

Alternativ you could read a lot

I am not sure if it would be so much different as most people throughout history haven't done personal development and still a lot of people to day doesn't do it or are even not aware of it so I don't really think they are that much related to eachother in terms of how many who does it i think leo also said something similar that we are still in the dark ages in becoming aware of our own psychology

https://www.actualized.org/articles/the-art-of-solving-problems-permanently

maybe it could help if you imaging the whole process a bit similar like it is explained in this video some study on retrievalpractice have also shown that if you do retriveval pratice it can help to degreasing anxiety(related to performing in front of people) hope it helps

something else that life have thought me is that don't wait too long to take action even if its something emotional difficult its okay to take a break and acknowledge that you aren't ready to face it but problems don't go away they only do if you take the time to solve them so its important not to take breaks that to long i think when you face something like this its important to think about how you are going to solve it not to long after it happens otherwise you could waste a lot of time and it could create limits an other thing is that something i have found to be usefull is to have a lot of different perspectives on one thing when learning something that could be important for you so you have a better big picture understanding of it and a better chance that you have a correct answer as usually the first answer is low understanding

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i personal think it most likely become like it was before we where born (nothingness)

It's probably a never ending journey but i think it's a positive thing as it mean you always can get better

I just recall the information it's also very quick to do if i rember right cal newport did some research on how straigt a students learned and one of the best techniques he found was that they used active recall(an other was just that they would explain the information as if they where a teacher themselves) for rembering the information better it should also be a good way to not having the illusion of competence which is basically the illusion of that you think you know the martial but really don't if you haven't gotten the aha moment of an idea it's probably a good sign that you don't really know it to aviod the illusion of competence just recall the information without looking at any source material something else you could do could be over learning(and spaced repetition) its an extremely usefull technique if you want to rember it in long term http://www.memory-improvement-tips.com/illusions-of-competence.html https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overlearning https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaced_repetition

Probably hire someone who knows how to invest money in the right things so they don't get wasted and probably a personal development coach as well and some stuff i always wanted and then give some money away to my family and friends and maybe donate some to spacex but still leave enough money so i can use that in investing in the right things so i don't lose the money forever

i think maybe the best thing i can think of would be to set a side a lot of time(For example 6 months) where you only focus on improving this area every day and not spending time on much else and use all your will power when you try to improve something and maybe also use this techniqe

Hi i thought this might be useful to some people and maybe save some time these video have definitely helped me a lot and took me some time to find them https://youtu.be/FFrR0cGWnac https://youtu.be/ijSng_X9soc https://youtu.be/l96TZeZGlDg https://youtu.be/5rey8B-yu5Y https://youtu.be/ayEoiU5MOg4 https://youtu.be/PFfZ1vTYCMg https://youtu.be/vYAEr_94EDY https://youtu.be/XulpS3cAkOM https://youtu.be/od68AuYqM5k Kind regards

Maybe this could help https://www.actualized.org/articles/the-art-of-solving-problems-permanently from experience when i tryed to form new habbits it was really difficult to keep track of them if i did more than one at the same time so maybe just focus at one at the time for 66 days (some research shows that's how long it take to form a habbit :))

https://www.actualized.org/articles/the-art-of-solving-problems-permanently (i think it helps if you write your thougt process down) https://www.actualized.org/articles/how-to-deal-with-strong-negative-emotions probably the best solutions i have found my self

https://www.actualized.org/articles/self-discipline-vs-freedom These might be useful

Hi does anybody know about any mindset for doing serious self improvement and to help one to keep going even when it becomes emotional difficult? kind regards

@OnceMore if you learn how to learn you should be able to get a super good career faster than most people for example if you do something called deep work (aka extreem intense concentration without distraction) (a book by cal newport) one of the people cal newport talks about in the book is what usually toke him a year he was able to do in a few weeks by concentrating extremly intensly without distractions and using rutins and rituals to minimize willpower(by just using 90 minuts a day in the morning) an other thing that i have found that really helps are if you are trying to understand something explain it as if you where to explain it to a five year old it really helps to give you a better understanding there is a lot of other really good learning techniques out there (example deliberate pratice and active recall) of course if the career doesn't require learning(or concentration) there might be something else (in this case maybe it could help to interview people who are already where you want to be to understand how they got there) alternative for a normal education there is also self education