How Do You Manage Learning Overload?

[z.js]

So much to learn, so little time! Don't you just feel the same? I mean, just LOOK at all the stuff on this forum!

 

[lendav_rott]

one thing at a time

 

[leroyjenkens]

Yeah, there's so much I want to do. I have gigabytes worth of ebooks that I'd like to read, but just don't have the time. If I read all the history books I have, I could probably become a history professor. I'd like to learn some new languages, but that's really time consuming also.
Actually, I have plenty of time to do these things, just not enough motivation.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

lendav_rott is right. Don't look too far ahead. Focus on learning what is in front of you. After awhile you'll be surprised how much you've built up.

 

[lambda90]

I get the same feeling any time I walk through a library. Stacks upon stacks of knowledge and all I'm ever going to have time to read in my life time is a maybe one measly rack.

 

[leroyjenkens]

I get the same feeling any time I walk through a library. Stacks upon stacks of knowledge and all I'm ever going to have time to read in my life time is a maybe one measly rack.

And how much of that rack will you retain in your head? Not much.

 

[Cosmobrain]

There are so many things to study out there that I don't even know where to start.
The problem with the sea of information on the internet is that it is hard to relax and choose one thing to read. You want to read everyting at the same time and you end up reading nothing

cb

 

[Yanick]

I just stare at stuff until it makes sense

 

[Cosmobrain]

I just stare at stuff until it makes sense

Trust me, that doesn't work. You aren't actually learning or understand things that way. You just think you know because that is psychologically satisfying for your brain. I say that from experience.I used to leave youtube videos about science playing in the background while I did other stuff, so I would learn not in a conscious way.

cb

 

[Yanick]

Trust me, that doesn't work. You aren't actually learning or understand things that way. You just think you know because that is psychologically satisfying for your brain. I say that from experience.I used to leave youtube videos about science playing in the background while I did other stuff, so I would learn not in a conscious way.

cb

I don't know, I'd imagine it depends on what you want to learn. I've used it to figure out topics varying from congestive heart failure symptoms to cyclohexane chair flips to deriving the general solution for second order homogenous differential equations with complex roots.

Each of those particular details of a topic I can teach cold.

 

[Cosmobrain]

I don't know, I'd imagine it depends on what you want to learn. I've used it to figure out topics varying from congestive heart failure symptoms to cyclohexane chair flips to deriving the general solution for second order homogenous differential equations with complex roots.

Each of those particular details of a topic I can teach cold.

I still say it is better to study these topics better, rather than just staring at the text. However, gazing at the texts is better than nothing

cb

 

[Yanick]

I still say it is better to study these topics better

Well, I certainly can't argue with that logic!

 

[z.js]

lendav_rott is right. Don't look too far ahead. Focus on learning what is in front of you. After awhile you'll be surprised how much you've built up.

Well, I remember when I was cramming away at Grade 1 stuff, now I'm on Grade 11!
Wow, Thanks for the new perspective!
D'ye hear that lambda90? Just borrow 2 books a week and in 1 year, you'll have been through 730 books... think of that!

 

[z.js]

I don't know, I'd imagine it depends on what you want to learn. I've used it to figure out topics varying from congestive heart failure symptoms to cyclohexane chair flips to deriving the general solution for second order homogenous differential equations with complex roots.

Each of those particular details of a topic I can teach cold.

OOH that's frustrating!
I just did a first aid course by Red Cross a few days ago.
Oh wow, that really must crack your head!