Excellent point. The workout analogy is good. When I'm really studying something, I eventually get a 'heavy' or 'warm' feeling in my body from the effort of concentration.
I think those light videos can work as an introduction, but then you have to start to dig in. Watch something for 20 minutes and make notes. Then study 2 hours with 1 to 2 breaks. I can't keep studying more than 2 hours a day because it's exhausting, but I may do a 30-minute refresh and recap later in the same day.
I just bought an android tablet for myself yesterday and I'm reading and replying on it. It really helps me for reading longform content. I was mostly a mobile and paperback person, but when I started reading on my wife's ipad, it was a game changer. I read more books and comics in the past years.
It was hard to get back to reading after she passed, but getting a tablet for me is a fresh air and it now encourages me to read more. Mine is a 13 inch S10 Fe Plus, a bit large sometimes, so pick the right size that you like. Screen type might matters (if you're reading at night), but amoled ones are way costly right now.
Honestly, I've been using a remarkable tablet for reading papers and also as a notebook to jot things down or to work out problems. It's fairly convenient and I think having a pen/paper like experience really helps with retention. Since it's pretty limited on what it can do (e.g. no notifications/no apps really), it's a fairly distraction free experience.
There's other tablets/systems that work similarly and tbh, I think having no apps or limited accessibility is really a bonus for this type of work.
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[ 0.23 ms ] story [ 16.0 ms ] threadI think those light videos can work as an introduction, but then you have to start to dig in. Watch something for 20 minutes and make notes. Then study 2 hours with 1 to 2 breaks. I can't keep studying more than 2 hours a day because it's exhausting, but I may do a 30-minute refresh and recap later in the same day.
also i can rarely allocate 4 hrs of time to anything with two young kids at home
It was hard to get back to reading after she passed, but getting a tablet for me is a fresh air and it now encourages me to read more. Mine is a 13 inch S10 Fe Plus, a bit large sometimes, so pick the right size that you like. Screen type might matters (if you're reading at night), but amoled ones are way costly right now.
There's other tablets/systems that work similarly and tbh, I think having no apps or limited accessibility is really a bonus for this type of work.
I don’t see why it can’t be - at least some of the time. I’ve certainly had fun learning difficult things.
Rest of post seem solid - that part just stood out a bit