Being productive in life.

paleoperson

Do you think posting on after hours is like "standing still" in life, or do you learn something and are wiser for it, gain some wisdom, enrich your conversation and thinking? Or does it just make you feel better? Or is it an addictive waste of time?

How do you try to get yourself to make progress in life rather than going around in circles?

orourkeda1977

I **** and drink pints.

Contributing to th eeconomy in my own way

Fr_Dougal

paleoperson wrote: »

Do you think posting on after hours is like "standing still" in life, or do you learn something and are wiser for it, gain some wisdom, enrich your conversation and thinking? Or does it just make you feel better? Or is it an addictive waste of time?

How do you try to get yourself to make progress in life rather than going around in circles?

Nice try, cop.

For Forks Sake

paleoperson wrote: »

Do you think posting on after hours is like "standing still" in life, or do you learn something and are wiser for it, gain some wisdom, enrich your conversation and thinking? Or does it just make you feel better? Or is it an addictive waste of time?

How do you try to get yourself to make progress in life rather than going around in circles?

Irish_rat

It's not productive, but it depends how much time you spend on it. I like to read, game and program in my spare time and I'd consider it to be more productive than watching sports and TV.

Bobtheman

The odd Time you get a better opinion than the pub or your mates

greencap

Online forums are generally a waste of time.

As an highly productive person myself..... :pac: ...... yeah right ..... I'd advise thinking of yourself as a machine. Or a mechanism.

As humans we all have natural limits, only so many calories can be burned, only so many calculations can be made in our little processor brains.

So if you want to be productive you need to either focus on one factor, or be consistent over a long time, if you do many things.

ultimately energy over time gets results.

whether its travelling around the world or making a sandwich, its always an investment of energy and time.

like if you press ctrl+alt+delete and click on task manager, and look at processes you'll see your computers processor dedicating certain amounts of memory to different programs you have running.

if you want to make one particular program progress quicker then you'll have to close down another program.

we're similar. if you want to make more progress in sport you'll have to invest less time on the internet or hanging out with friends, or commuting, for example.

greencap

orourkeda1977 wrote: »

I **** and drink pints.

Contributing to th eeconomy in my own way

The bottling and brewing industries.
The kleenex and retail industries.

You're providing jobs.

There are very few people who can be productive in their free time all the time.

I've spent a lot mine in the last five years creating a business, and know that even when motivation is highest, you need to switch off and do something like boards or play some games. I hit a point where I just cannot write another line of code.


Online courses are a good way of being productive. Or join some foreign language classes etc. The structure helps.

paleoperson

paleoperson wrote: »

Do you think posting on after hours is like "standing still" in life, or do you learn something and are wiser for it

Both? Like a lot of things in life - we can invest time in things that mostly give no return but then occasionally very much do.

paleoperson wrote: »

How do you try to get yourself to make progress in life rather than going around in circles?

Everyone is different but for me progress came when I shifted the measures by which I evaluate myself. And my target each day is to be a little bit better in some tiny way than the me from the day before. Slow going but over 10 years of doing this - I am pretty much exactly where I could ever want to be.