Productivity and college – The experiment

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So, tired of this Applied Math course taking so long to finish, I’ve decided to spice things a bit. I decided to take 7 subjects this semester. The maximum I’ve taken before was 5 (I wasn’t yet working and failed at 3 I think u_u). But this craziness has a reason…

I love reading blogs about productivity and self-development because they inspire me a lot. And people always says to keep focus, single-task and so on.

I also learned to ignore the fails os subjects. In the beginning it annoyed me and depressed me when I failed any subject. Today I try to focus on the present. I have no idea if I’ll pursue the academic life, so *now* it doesn’t matter if I fail a lot of matters, only that I learn from them and pass them as soon as possible.

This is the reason I’ve decided to engage in this “suicide experiment” how I call it, lol. I also will try to apply a lot of productivity techniques (like keeping focus, keeping things organized) in order to accomplish the goal to pass as many subjects that I can.

I believe it will allow me to grow a lot in maturity with this experiment. One thing that inspired me to try this was my performance on my Japanese study at the vacation. I finally finished studying Remembering the Kanji, by James Heisig. I’ve learned to write approximately 1000 kanjis in a month and my recall-rate is still in the interval 80%~90%. I’ll try to apply the same memory techniques to my college studies as a personal experiment. And I intend to publish my results here. Wish me luck! :)

Posted in Educação, Productivity at August 14th, 2009. Trackback URI: trackback

  • Nishihara :

    Well, as I say, take it easy. lol.

    Sometimes there are things that even if you make all the possible effort, you fail. You fail exactly because you made too much effort (I know it is a little weird, but, oh, well…). lol.


    My aproach is a little different: don’t focus too much, take it easy and rest.


    I don’t think it is a “suicide experiment”…yet.


    Oh, one more thing: 負けた。Whatever…






    I’ll try to take it easy, but do constantly. The problem is that I procrastinate most of the time and start doing things out of despair because the due date is so near and of course it screws everything. My plan is not to push the limits so much, but instead, do something everyday. This is what I did during the vacation to study kanjis. Well, actually, I did push a little, but just because I was having fun anyway =D

    負けちゃった… (。＿。)’

  • nami :

    Ainda bem que não escreveu que lê livros de auto-ajuda XDD ahhahahahhahahha!!! Nada contra (u—ú) mas não acredito que ajude muito… pelo menos pra mim, sei lá. Eu num falo nada com nada xD

    Mas vá lá! Você consegue! ahahahhahaha




    Então, antigamente eu tinha um baita pre-conceito com esse tipo de assunto. Mas eu comecei a ler algumas coisas que considerava nonsense e baboseira, mas que começavam a fazer algum sentido, e coisas até meio óbvias, mas que eu não havia pensado antes. Então eu notei que existem conteúdos que parecem essas baboseiras mas não são. O problema é que a quantidade de gente que fala baboseira é tão grande que é até difícil encontrar os que falam coisas úteis. Mas acredite, existe gente que fala coisa boa (mas parece auto-ajuda furada)! XD
    Mas pô, que preconceituosa você com o povo que lê auto-ajuda e fica sempre lamentando da vida e nada nunca dá certo e culpam os astros por causa disso… erm… huauhauhahua XD
  • Nishihara
    Well, as I say, take it easy. lol.
    Sometimes there are things that even if you make all the possible effort, you fail. You fail exactly because you made too much effort (I know it is a little weird, but, oh, well...). lol.
    My aproach is a little different: don't focus too much, take it easy and rest.
    I don't think it is a "suicide experiment"...yet.

    Oh, one more thing: 負けた。Whatever...
  • nami
    Ainda bem que não escreveu que lê livros de auto-ajuda XDD ahhahahahhahahha!!! Nada contra (u---ú) mas não acredito que ajude muito... pelo menos pra mim, sei lá. Eu num falo nada com nada xD
    Mas vá lá! Você consegue! ahahahhahaha
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