Ask HN: How do you manage self-study?
I&#x27;m hoping my reply is more helpful than it sounds at first glance... This is one of those questions where I read and then exclaim (rhetorically), &quot;what&#x27;s wrong with people?!&quot;<p>Don&#x27;t take this the wrong way, I often exclaim this. You are quite possibly in the majority and I&#x27;m the odd one.<p>To me it has always seemed inherently clear that the way to approach life is to do something if you enjoy it. If you stop enjoying it then do something else. I will naturally need a break from doing something after a while (hours, days, weeks), and so I&#x27;ll put it down and pickup something else.<p>As a recent article on HN mentioned, &quot;enthusiasm is worth 25 IQ points.&quot;<p>When it comes to self-guided activities such as this, there has never been a &quot;should&quot; or &quot;best&quot; for me. I just follow what I enjoy, perhaps guided secondarily by what may be useful. (Actually, I enjoy things that are useful, so perhaps that intertwines these concepts for me). I suspect I didn&#x27;t thrive at university for this reason, while in the real world I know a number of people who would call me an overachiever.<p>PS. I have a few friends with some degree of ADHD. These friends may often feel overwhelmed by a large number of choices or tasks, to the point of inaction. I&#x27;m not saying this applies to you, but I just thought it was worth mentioning.