How do you keep your to-learn items – organized and prioritized?
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How do you manage to prioritize what to learn?
Anything big needs to be worth spending at least a year figuring out if it is worth learning. The little things are those which are necessary to support the big things and are learned because they are necessary and learned when they come up as part of the big thing.
And how do you organize this?
By doing. If I'm not doing it, then it isn't meaningful enough to do. Which means that I don't keep lists of things that I'm not going to do. Just lists of things I need to do to do what I am doing.
I mean I can't do everything that's interesting, but I can always be doing something interesting. Having fewer things means I can be patient and a little patience goes a long way. We're conditioned to give things an hour or maybe half a day and then make long term decisions...or in the case of an iPhone app, maybe five minutes at best. But things worth doing are worth doing over decades and filtering those things probably takes a few months at least.
Or to put it another way, we are conditioned to make Dunning -Kruger decisions. Good luck.
Anything big needs to be worth spending at least a year figuring out if it is worth learning. The little things are those which are necessary to support the big things and are learned because they are necessary and learned when they come up as part of the big thing.
And how do you organize this?
By doing. If I'm not doing it, then it isn't meaningful enough to do. Which means that I don't keep lists of things that I'm not going to do. Just lists of things I need to do to do what I am doing.
I mean I can't do everything that's interesting, but I can always be doing something interesting. Having fewer things means I can be patient and a little patience goes a long way. We're conditioned to give things an hour or maybe half a day and then make long term decisions...or in the case of an iPhone app, maybe five minutes at best. But things worth doing are worth doing over decades and filtering those things probably takes a few months at least.
Or to put it another way, we are conditioned to make Dunning -Kruger decisions. Good luck.
Thank you @brudgers. It has got me thinking differently about my lists. The time factor and patience required for big things did not consciously occur to me. I am guilty of being conditioned in this aspect!
This does not even include the wish list of side projects I want to work on.
I find I am swimming in the deep !! For this year I know what I want to focus on (work requirement) but I am wondering if it worth the hassle to go through what I have marked to plan for later learning/deliberate practice.
How do you manage to prioritize what to learn ? And how do you organize this ?