I want to study, learn and self teach myself things that interest me like learning the Japanese language and learning how to draw but I’ll also sometimes have the issue of information filling up in my mind and overloading without it actually being retained or only a small amount of information being retained
The overloaded feeling sometimes even leads to mild to worser headaches
I absolutely hate this issue because I love self teaching myself things I’m interested in but this issue stops me from self teaching and learning properly
Unless I’m careful I find I obsess about things, and it isn’t sustainable. Either overload or burn out on it. Nowadays I try to pace my obsessions, do a bit at a time and enforce breaks, sometimes a few days or even weeks. It allows me to think about the subject, lock things down and make links. Sometimes less is more.
For me I become unaware of the passage of time or my surroundings when I hyperfocus.
I will go to look something up and then realize that I have been researching for 3 hours. People will say my name I just appear to ignore them.
A headache is a good indicator that maybe you need a short break from what you are doing. Its easy not to feel your bodys signals when youre busy and it takes a little practise learning to spot them earlier. I can often go without noticing im hungry when I get engrossed in something.
Information retention; I have noticed that I have terrible short term memory, but really good long term memory - except for peoples names, I could know you for a year and still forget your name.
Learning a language and drawing are two things that id say information collection are not really that helpful compared to just practising them. To learn japanese, speak it, hear it. To learn to draw, draw stuff. The theoretical lessons will compliment the practise hours you have already put in, but theory without practise wont make you learn them more eificiently - until you have experience to associate it to, the theory wont mean anything on its own.
It is weird how I can’t remember names. I can entire scenes from movies I watched but I can’t remember “Susan.”
What’s worse is when it is a non standard name.
Leitner box work well and because it need you to space your sessions it should help not getting overwhelmed by them. And since you need to chose precisely what you want to learn it make you part the subject.
If you don’t want to try leitner box, defining what you want to learn should help you not trying to learn too much at once.
Do the questions at the back first, by which i mean use any practice or questions at the end to help you do a more deliberate search and study of the reading
Did you mean deliberate ?
For me the problem is that every time I go to learn it becomes an obsession. Once I start reading something I won’t stop and switching to something else is very hard.
Well I moved to the Arctic to be away from distractions
Found the alaskan
Nope, Scandinavia.
Whats the current hours of daylight where you are? Days have started getting longer again but I havent really noticed yet
Officially, like 1 or something. But because of the mountains to the south, I won’t see the sun until the 22nd. But polar night ended yesterday technically.
