Transcendental Sith Lord's UH / MLS Journal

[DarthXedonias]

Well, things are actually going quite good so far.

Should be close to finishing another section in my math course possibly by today. After that only have 4 more sections I believe. Want to get through this math course sooner as I feel this is eating too much time. The reason why I didn't go as fast through my courses last term was because this course was holding me up. I don't want to make a repeat of that this time. I just really need to get through this degree and study for my tech interviews because quite frankly I need that increase in base pay to live a bit more comfortably. Preferably if I can get a remote job with a major company.

I did end up buying a small portable gym and ended my gym membership. Quite frankly I prefer working out at home. This time I am motivated to get into the best shape possible. Going with this I will be doing a 7 day a week workout and working out 1 body part a day. Will be sure I'm eating enough calories as well. On the mental side my call to cut out any potentially addictive things out of my life is paying off. Decided yesterday along with porn ,which I had cut out completely for pretty much a month now, I will be going no fap as well. I noticed since I have cut out all these things (video games, porn, youtube watching, and now fapping) life is just a lot better. I find myself in a lot better mood and find enjoyment in just living. Also, even when I do occasionally take a break and watch a movie for example I find it a lot more enjoyable. I assume this is not only a change in beliefs but also since my brain isn't overloaded with dopamine activities I am a lot more sensitive to it. To help with this whole process I think in like 2 weeks or so I will be doing a 2 hour float in a sensory depravation tank. Just want to relax for 2 hours completely without any sensory input or worry about my surroundings.

I did find also changing all this made it so when I do stuff like my studies they actually interest me a lot more. Speaking of which I found out why my subconscious suggested Mastery by Robert Greene. Always liked his different books (ever since I read the 48 laws of power in highschool) but I felt like this one was really key to making me realize some things. I can also see why the parts of me that might still be resisting wanted me to be distracted from it for a while until like 2 days ago I suddenly remembered about it again and started listening to the audio book (for anyone interested there is a free audio book version of it on youtube broken into 2 chapters at a time).

Listening to it made me realize what I need to do. If I really want to be great in the realm of programming I'm going to have to do what other masters in field did which is fully dedicate themselves to it. One thing that the book does talk about is how, just like with the apprenticeship way of learning, you need to get to about 10,000 hours with an activity in which at that point your should be at about mastery status. Mind you this is only an average. In reality it can take anywhere from 728 hours to 16,120 hours. So the individual in question does have some bearing on how long it takes (along with if you have a good teacher). There is some truth behind this as looking at the great composers for example despite being called geniuses many of them didn't make anything original until they accumulated over 10,000 hours of practice. The ones that were an exception to this rule usually did earlier at 9,000 hours.

Granted also some certain skills take longer to master than others. I know I've seen for certain programming languages it only takes 200 hours to be job ready with them and then mastery is at about 2,000 hours. Despite this I think what I will do is still go for an 10,000 hour mark but with that broken up into different aspects of programming (certainly not all in one language either). If I'm going to do any of this and be in a certain field I'm going to be the best I can be at it. For once in my life I feel as though I want to really achieve something. I feel as though I have regained my will power and motivation to face issues. The other good news is that when you master one programming language it becomes a lot easier to learn others as a lot of them use the same understandings and techniques. Usually the only differences are the syntax of said languages and maybe some small unique features.

Lastly, I did start my trading and I actually find it enjoyable so far. I have set up alarms that go to my phone when certain assets go above or below a certain price. I'm finding it enjoyable as I just either buy or sell after getting an alert then I just set it and forget it. This is a long term strategy so I will see where I am at over a year. Overall several different areas in my life are changing for the better.