The Grand Project Challenge
As I implied in the last post, I’m a VERY bad student. I always have been. I won’t learn a thing unless I particularly want to learn it and if someone tries to teach me even that I won’t be able to do it until I dive in on my own terms.
It’s one of them thar double-edged coin thingies and it’s starting to bite me in the ass more than benefit me. (The fact that there’s a palpable balance shift over the last five years is a relatively new revelation to me, one that deserves some blogilicious exploration.)
When I started taking personal productivity and goal setting (note I didn’t say “achievement.” Let’s not get all crazy now or nuthin’) I started tracking down all kinds of resources on note taking, goal setting, etc. All the GTD goofyness.
Relatively recently I came upon the Study Hacks site. It’s a wonderful take on the whole self-improvement-psychosis thing from the perspective of the learner (”school” aside entirely.) I highly recommend checking it out.
Now today I saw four words in a row that flicked a switch in my head, a rusty frozen switch. Klaxons blared, seized gears squealed and stank as a cacophonous conglomeration of machinery started moving for the first time in several years.
Check it out.
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