Originally posted by OnenessIt's good if you find something you are interested and good in. And yeah, mood swings can be a huge issue. How are you going to work on it?
Yes it is.My insecurity makes me behave irrationally.
My insecurity comes from fear.
I think if I remove the fear, in my dreams and in my life, I will not have that chink in my armor.
As for accelerating learning, I don't know what I can do. But even unstable I know I can learn a lot in little time, I know that I everyone in my family has a very high IQ - and that my memory is remarkable.
I realize looking back that very early on I was interested in science - more so than a normal child would have been. Every time I went to a science center or historic site I would be enthralled by everything there. I'd spend hours at these places without getting bored - because I was always looking at things, every other time except for playing I'd want to leave, at restaurant, you name it. When I was a kid I was able to focus on all the science outside school, even when I was five. So I have that desire to learn, now the will, and I just need the focus to apply myself to the fullest.
I've never had that, because I've been distracted by these manic mood swings.
Originally posted by Oneness
But you're right, after the PhD a lot of my goals aren't methodical, but assumptions on what technologies I might develop unbeknownst to fellow researchers. No real need to set steps in that goal because I either do it or I don't. I would work alone, because one cannot use another's breakthrough for their own ends to patent a technology and reap the recognition all for themselves. But then again, I'm already making 100k a year in this job so sharing the huge profits is not of concern, whether or not I share what I create with anyone is. I might write a program myself, learn if there is some high-level corruption going on, if I don't find it, I will share the profits, if I do find it - laws will be broken for the greater good.
Have you started learning to program? What languages are you learning?
Originally posted by Bardock42
It's good if you find something you are interested and good in. And yeah, mood swings can be a huge issue. How are you going to work on it?
Best way to work on it is mindset and staying clear of negative people which is difficult in a community college.
Have you started learning to program? What languages are you learning?
Not yet.
I mean my mom works purely html code so I've become proficient in that long before this data processing course.
Originally posted by Bardock42You can get a lot out of a day.
You should really start learning some programming, it's not that hard to get into, but takes quite a while to become very good at.
Over 10 hours, times by 7, times that by 4, times that by 12, times that 2.
Is that a while?
3,360 hours per year, with two hours free time and two hours to lift because we don't need more than 8 hours of sleep a night.
We're talking about the fact that certain people have very pedantic memories, a filing system that pieces everything together very accurately. Speed and reliability of improving upon learned tasks, adding to the collective the further along you get the quicker you get the knack when you're talking this kind of work - and so the less time you need to improve.
It's a curve. Last summer I A'd 1 course, last semester I A'd 2, now I'll A 3 - then we're talking about an additional 4 credits next in 1 summer, and 24, maximum allowed, for each new semester. That's an associates - but when you get into a tech-schooled university like Washington, especially under a special program designed for prospects, it's far simpler, you move along at a faster rate far more smoothly.
The only thing that will take anytime, if I even need to, is to defend why I should have the PhD in the required texts I must make.
That's 6720 hours, however, you are unlikely to spend all your time on just that are you? They say it takes 10 000 hours to become an expert at something (of course that's by no means an actual rule or anything, but maybe some sort of rule of thumb), but what you want is a level beyond expert, you are looking to become a hacker so good that you surpass what I'm pretty sure are actual physical limitations.
At any rate, what is stopping you from starting right now? You could try this course, it helped me a lot when I first started getting interested in programming myself.
Originally posted by Bardock42Mathematics is a very quick learning process. Once you fathom the concepts, it's pure smooth simplicity, repetitive tasks.
That's 6720 hours, however, you are unlikely to spend all your time on just that are you? They say it takes 10 000 hours to become an expert at something (of course that's by no means an actual rule or anything, but maybe some sort of rule of thumb), but what you want is a level beyond expert, you are looking to become a hacker so good that you surpass what I'm pretty sure are actual physical limitations.At any rate, what is stopping you from starting right now? You could try this course, it helped me a lot when I first started getting interested in programming myself.
This is why savants like Jake Barnett will teach himself everything taught in the highest levels of high mathematics within months. You see things, you can look ahead, because your brain has repeated this and that so many times, and it has filed it all.
Yes there's a plateau, of course. The only way to know it is to hit it, the only way to transcend it is inspiration and awe. This is just the time it'll take me to become a researcher, I'll have way over 10,000 hours after that point. The brain doesn't stop improving until you reach 25, by that point it's way past 50,000 hours.
Originally posted by Oneness
Mathematics is a very quick learning process. Once you fathom the concepts, it's pure smooth simplicity, repetitive tasks.This is why savants like Jake Barnett will teach himself everything taught in the highest levels of high mathematics within months. You see things, you can look ahead, because your brain has repeated this and that so many times, and it has filed it all.
Yes there's a plateau, of course. The only way to know it is to hit it, the only way to transcend it is inspiration and awe. This is just the time it'll take me to become a researcher, I'll have way over 10,000 hours after that point. The brain doesn't stop improving until you reach 25, by that point it's way past 50,000 hours.
As a former Mathematics student I have to say I disagree about learning the concepts being quick for most people.
At any rate, just start, I know making plans gives a similar quick to actually accomplishing something (I do that a lot), but if you want to really achieve it you have to sit down and do it.
Originally posted by Bardock42
As a former Mathematics student I have to say I disagree about learning the concepts being quick for most people.
That part does take the longest.
At any rate, just start, I know making plans gives a similar quick to actually accomplishing something (I do that a lot), but if you want to really achieve it you have to sit down and do it.
Right.
Originally posted by AstnerNot until this semester.
So you've really not dealt with anything other than high school maths?
And I have to say the concepts do take a little while to sink in.
Trig and pre-calc mixed gives you little time internalize many methodologies, formulas, theorems, etc.
After I see robo-cop I'm going to get on go mode for the rest of this semester.
But its okay if it's better we're apart, for now. If you're alone, I mean if you feel alone, remember this guy keeps getting better, no matter how good he gets you're the only one he'll choose to care for on the most personal level.