I have been working on this on and off for a couple of years as a potential career switch but akrasia is a big barrier so most of my suggestions are to combat this.
I found this a lot harder but I do think the practice with the previous exercises helped me on this one to search wider for solutions, especially as I got nearer the end. Some are things I’ve already done/started but could do more/better.
Schedule fixed times each week
Reminder on phone
Get someone to ask me how it’s going every week
Join learning group
Join and do Kaggle projects
Look for alternatives to Kaggle
Find a mentor
Sign up for a course
Sign up for more expensive courses to motivate me
Beeminder or something
Ask for suggestions on courses
Read up about Akrasia in general
Look up jobs and requirements
Internship
Find low effort content to combine with high effort
Programming camp
Combine with current job
Look to get reassigned to move more towards field
Look for opportunities within current job to use skills
Break down into smaller tasks
Make full list of everything I want to learn, break it into manageable chunks
Delete games / other distractions from phone
Turn off all push notifications
Timelock phone for times I should be learning
Stop being lazy
Just give up (cut my losses)
Choose something else to learn
Be more direct in what I actually need to learn instead of what is suggested in courses
Focus on the bits I actually enjoy
Take a couple of weeks break guilt-free, come back refreshed
Play music whilst working
Look if anyone has made Anki Decks
Read data science blogs
Watch data science youtube stuff
Don’t do too much at once (avoid burnout)
Do lots all at once (Do it when I have the motivation)
Take more regular breaks whilst doing it
Just start and see if I feel like it once I’ve been doing it for 10 minutes
Get more comfy work chair
Get better equipment
Focus on the goal
Get more sleep for better energy
Reward myself after I’ve done something
Talk about my successes with people
Write up what I’ve learnt
Create a fun exercise:
Ex1: Robot raspberry pi
Ex2: Checkers learner
Ex3: Minecraft mod
Ex4: Look up fun projects online
Ex5: Write bot for Darwin game (and then fail to submit it…)
Improving programming / machine learning skills
I have been working on this on and off for a couple of years as a potential career switch but akrasia is a big barrier so most of my suggestions are to combat this.
I found this a lot harder but I do think the practice with the previous exercises helped me on this one to search wider for solutions, especially as I got nearer the end. Some are things I’ve already done/started but could do more/better.
Schedule fixed times each week
Reminder on phone
Get someone to ask me how it’s going every week
Join learning group
Join and do Kaggle projects
Look for alternatives to Kaggle
Find a mentor
Sign up for a course
Sign up for more expensive courses to motivate me
Beeminder or something
Ask for suggestions on courses
Read up about Akrasia in general
Look up jobs and requirements
Internship
Find low effort content to combine with high effort
Programming camp
Combine with current job
Look to get reassigned to move more towards field
Look for opportunities within current job to use skills
Break down into smaller tasks
Make full list of everything I want to learn, break it into manageable chunks
Delete games / other distractions from phone
Turn off all push notifications
Timelock phone for times I should be learning
Stop being lazy
Just give up (cut my losses)
Choose something else to learn
Be more direct in what I actually need to learn instead of what is suggested in courses
Focus on the bits I actually enjoy
Take a couple of weeks break guilt-free, come back refreshed
Play music whilst working
Look if anyone has made Anki Decks
Read data science blogs
Watch data science youtube stuff
Don’t do too much at once (avoid burnout)
Do lots all at once (Do it when I have the motivation)
Take more regular breaks whilst doing it
Just start and see if I feel like it once I’ve been doing it for 10 minutes
Get more comfy work chair
Get better equipment
Focus on the goal
Get more sleep for better energy
Reward myself after I’ve done something
Talk about my successes with people
Write up what I’ve learnt
Create a fun exercise:
Ex1: Robot raspberry pi
Ex2: Checkers learner
Ex3: Minecraft mod
Ex4: Look up fun projects online
Ex5: Write bot for Darwin game (and then fail to submit it…)