How do you stay motivated to self-learn and not just play vidya or waste your free time with entertainment media?
I'm not a NEET, I'm a student and I get good grades but sometimes it's just hard to develop that initiative that separates high achievers from those who are just good at taking tests, you know?
I go to sleep and then i start thinking about how i wasted a whole day, then i feel motivated. The next day dont remember that i was motivated and do nothing again.
But there is a powerful tool that works for me. I set the things i want to do when i motivated in a way that its not a choice whether i do them or not. For example:
I could register for this semester 5 courses in college, but i registered 7. Its not a choice now, i have to take them. I want to learn german, but this duolingo shit isn't working i cant do it for myself, so i go to a languages school and i pay a lot of dollars, now it isnt a choice to go and learn german, i have to go.
I enjoy learning new things.
If I come across something and I'm curious as to how it works or I discover I'm ignorant in a certain subject, I research it.
>>7741959
I have a list of goals I want to meet and constantly berate myself for how little effort I put into them each day; this motivates me to do better the next day.
>I know berating ones self isn't healthy but until I get better I need to work with what I do naturally
>>7742056
Dude I am in the exactly self situation and I need fucking help.I am going mad due to my weakness of willpower.
>>7742263
self situation - I meant same situation
>>7742056
Are you me?
>>7742056
lmao you're going to get a bad grade and then fuck your GPA up. so much for
>i just have to do it now guys! see i cracked the code!
how dumb
>>7741959
I have crontabs that will automatically open or killall certain programs through out my day, depending on what tasks I have scheduled for myself ahead of time.
I have a series of mp3's of my own voice reminding me what specifically I want to do with the on screen application and what my allotted amount of time is.
I have crontabs from within root that periodically block or unblock certain productivity draining sites (such as 4chan) from the /etc/hosts file.
My life on my computer is not beginning to feel like one long game. Does anyone else have any other advice on computer productivity?
>>7742842
>Does anyone else have any other advice on computer productivity?
Nah. You seem to have it covered.
>>7742842
>mp3
>not flac or other lossless codec
>>7743113
>>not flac or other lossless codec
No point in using a superior file format until I get superior speakers.
>>7742842
>I have crontabs from within root that periodically block or unblock certain productivity draining sites (such as 4chan) from the /etc/hosts file.
What the fuck?
>>7741959
legitimately got me laughing from pic
>>7742842
Holy shit bro you might just have saved my productivity (unless I don't end up just turning it off).
>>7742132
Not healthy my ass. It's the only way we can advance ourselves, as long as it makes you productive it's beneficial
>>7741959
The main problem is you do not want to self-learn.You would rather play vidya and waste your free time.I am in the same situation and I would like to self learn but I would really rather spend my time gaming than studying even though it makes me sad
The problem with self learning for me is I try and keep it to things non-academic, considering I'm in college I don't wanna spend months learning let's say differential equations to only spend a semester sitting in a class about it later on already knowing it
>>7741959
Do enough things you enjoy so you can cope with things you don't.
>>7742390
Im smart enough to get a good GPA while taking a lot of classes. When i take 5 classes I have lot of free time, when i take more my free time is gone. Im study in Mexico btw so dificult may vary.
It is a good advice imo
>>7744257
unam?
>>7743669
>natural bust enlargement with mind power
>picture of a fat chick
do you use your mind power to increase your lethargy and voracity?
