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Losing my interest learning when I reach near to finish line

7 points by srinivasandoor ↗ HN
I can't even watch anything outside of udemy for even 10%. My problem is I don't know why I'm getting bored after reaching 70-80% of the course.

I'm learning a lot till I'm <50% of the course and slowly, I stop learning at that rate, and at 80%, I totally stop learning at all and get bored having to learn.

Why is this happening and how can this be fixed?

Would investing my money into giving certification exams fix this issue? I'm learning about computer networking, systems administration, databases, distributed systems, system design, packet sniffing etc. Not all at once, obviously.

4 comments

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tacostakohashi
Usually it helps if you are learning things you need to know to complete a project you care about, so you are applying and using what you are learning.
atomicnature
You could determine who your real boss is for any activity. Are you learning to satisfy the market, or are you learning to satisfy your curiosity? And it is probably useful to strictly segment your time in this way into two categories: market-serving and curiosity-serving. When you are trying to serve your curiosity, there is no reason to dwell on things that are pointless from your individual needs. However, when you are serving the market, you are usually obligated to dwell on things from the perspective of others.
account-5
I find it very hard to force myself tkearn stuff I'm not going to immediately use. I second the project thing, learning something for a useful reason always makes my learning experience better.