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This may only be part of the equation of learning to stop yourself, but a good book for when you're feeling helpless to create motion in your life is:

https://www.amazon.com/Mini-Habits-Smaller-Bigger-Results-ebook/dp/B00HGKNBDK

If you can do one push-up in a day or read two pages of a book, or something with a similarly small amount of effort, you can do what's in the book.

I also like the approach of slow adoption (Mini-Habits https://www.amazon.ca/Mini-Habits-Smaller-Bigger-Results-ebook/dp/B00HGKNBDK?ie=UTF8&*Version*=1&*entries*=0) where you just make really small changes. These seem easier to keep up.

For example I would say "go the gym one morning a week" and once that is a habit you go twice... before long you'll realize that you can go every day if you want since you have the one day a week thing figured out (and going twice is only marginally harder, etc).

I also find scheduling too tightly is a mistake. If you are really making progress on something and you don't have an external obligation just keep going! That is what you will want to do and what you should do. The only exception is if "keep going" is actually harmful to your other goals. But rather than "record music for one hour everyday" why not say "I would like to record music for 5 hours a week".

Finally, one hour blocks don't really allow much time for context switching.

Problem is having to work 40 hrs a week for many people. I agree with your idea. I feel guilty wasting time on youtube as well. Are you going to use by the hour or by the goal schedule? Are you baseing it of any books? The books I have read

https://www.amazon.com/Mini-Habits-Smaller-Bigger-Results-ebook/dp/B00HGKNBDK

The book I have partially read

https://www.amazon.com/Atomic-Habits-Proven-Build-Break/dp/0735211299

Habits are the preffered method for reaching goals.

Use a mini habit. Show up for 2 minutes a day, every single day. Watching videos/reading tutorials counts if that's the tutorial you are on. You are allowed to keep going after the initial 2 minutes. You are also allowed to stop.

Books on this technique

This is the morning routine I've been attempting to get myself back into.

Having recently moved houses on very short notice, it has been completely derailed, but I hope to get started again this weekend, actually. Maybe I'll take a little extra motivation knowing that there happens to be a video coming out about it. I will also be using an accountability web app (that I work for) to keep me on track.

(This was all originally posted here: <em>https://forum.beeminder.com/t/marys-beeminder-journal-2022-edition/10409/5?u=mary</em> )

It seems like a lot, but they’re all mini-habits, which means they have crazy low requirements (no more than 1 minute each… with the exception of making a cup of tea). The goal is consistency. And I hope to perform them in the same order, in a single sequence, as often as possible, hoping to get them to stick together as one thing in the habit corners of my brain.

Morning Habit Stack

• <strong>Quick Withings check-in</strong>
• <strong>Touching my dissertation as the first thing I do in the day</strong> (I have a morning brain. By 4:00 PM I can't add 1+1 without a calculator.)
• <strong>Run my Siri shortcut that sets advance alarms (not quiet notifications) for all of my events for the day</strong>
• <strong>Toss on my gym clothes</strong>
• <strong>A mental health exercise</strong>
• <strong>At least a minute of cardio</strong>
• <strong>At least a minute of meditation</strong>
• <strong>A problem-solving exercise</strong>
• <strong>A small healthy habit</strong>
• <strong>A couple</strong> of <strong>skin care</strong> goals (I'll also stick a shower in here if this is when that makes the most sense that day [like if I'm not planning on going for a bike ride later].)
• <strong>Getting dressed while trying to leave my closet un-destroyed</strong>
• <strong>Make a cup of tea</strong>
• <strong>A quick breathing exercise</strong> (This one)
• <strong>At least one of my physiotherapy exercises</strong>
• <strong>Take my supplement (to address a specific deficiency)</strong>

You don't need to accomplish something in a month, you need to become the type of person who accomplishes things as a way of life. For that, you need to become someone who can cultivate good habits on demand. I recommend Mini Habits. Atomic Habits is also good, I hear, but I haven't read it yet.

You're only 18. Frankly, anything you accomplish now isn't going to mean much when you're 30, but if you start cultivating good habits, the things you will accomplish on the way to 30 will be significant and amazing. If you want to build a skyscraper, you have to have a deep foundation. Habits are the foundation.

Anything worth achieving will take time. You're actually self-sabotaging by mentally revving yourself up to get something done now, knowing it can't be. It's all mental drama in the guise of having a strong desire, but you need to stop kidding yourself. You need to develop steadiness while you're young (it seems you already have to some degree, so maybe it's just a matter of either focusing your efforts, learning how to take things to the next level, or simply being patient), because your current mindset will become a self-fulfilling prophecy, and you will spend your life talking about wanting to get stuff done but never actually doing it. Instead proceed methodically, consulting as needed with people who can actually guide you. If you have a specific kind of work or goal, get a mentor, or at least some good advice from someone who has shown expertise and accomplishment (not random redditors).

Cultivate patience. At various times of the day, if you aren't engaged in a good, intentional habit you've created for yourself, ask yourself, "what is the next right thing?" and then do that thing, one step at a time, one day at time. Habits are the shortcut because you are programming "the next right" thing to occur automatically. Good luck.

> I get overwhelmed and don't do ANYTHING.

https://www.amazon.com/Mini-Habits-Smaller-Bigger-Results-ebook/dp/B00HGKNBDK

read this

Here you go.

Mini Habits: Smaller Habits, Bigger Results

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00HGKNBDK/ref=cm_sw_r_u_apa_GY1EDHPV0ERX1BPZFH68

The issue--at least, this was the case for me--is a combination of three factors:

1. You aren't tracking your time so you don't realize how much you actually have, and thus assume you have enough to do the task later. Since you have no objective way to make your brain go, "Oh wait, I don't have enough time to dick around", you dick around.
2. Working feels painful. This is because you don't have a habit of working in the first place. With no habit, you MUST use willpower in order to work--but you also have to resist your old habits at the same time. To fix this, gradually increase the amount of time you work normally per day. Start with as little as two minutes, and increase by one or two a day. Yes, it should be that low, because (last I knew) it can take up to 66 days to form a habit, so you need to make sure some of your minutes are becoming "free" before adding more.
3. Starting also feels painful. You're worried about how long the task is going to take--but this is because you are looking at the task in its entirety. Instead, break it down. Make what you are going to do on that task today stupidly small. I.e. "I'm going to code one function" or "I am going to read one page", etc. When your brain extrapolates how much disutility working is going to be, it always overestimates. But when you start, it turns out not to be as bad as you predicted and your brain is unlikely to stop you from doing a bit more than you originally intended--or a lot more. This is the Mini-Habits/Atomic Habits method.

If you have Android, I'm working on an app to solve this problem, but it's still MVP. Let me know and I'll send you a link if you're interested.

>Also you said you handled too many people like that, so isn't this the norm already in the world? So why isn't this new norm being embrace by people? What learn the hard way?

Because it's not a new norm. This is the old norm that a new generation of people, including me, are trying to replace. That's why "entry level" doesn't mean what you think it means... anymore. "Entry level" describes the pay grade, more often than not.

Why do you think so many of those jobs have ridiculously high requirements? Because each successive generation become quicker at learning from the previous generation and then continuing to push the bar even higher.

>Mozart as a young musician, compared to today’s good young musicians, would be relatively average. How can this be? This relates to the third point about Mozart. For his time, he was excellent. But over time, we humans generally become more excellent. Standards of excellence have risen, often a lot.

How to Become Great at Just About Anything

I do understand that, one day, I will be replaced. Hopefully, the next generation will be even stronger, better, faster, and smarter than me. I do what I can to contribute to their understanding of the world and how it works, and I want to learn from them as well. If I can successfully connect my past to their future in our present, I will always have a fighting chance.

This field is fast-moving. Shape up or ship out. Here's a book recommendation.

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>Because they should not even use any metric to determine who to hire in the first place for a entry level role, condemning people who are bad completely.

I think it's a good thing to condemn people who are bad and refuses to fix their own problems. They made their decisions, and they get to suffer the consequences. Tough shit. I chose to address my flaws, and I got rewarded for it. This is how life works.

In my opinion, people who refuse to take responsibility for their own life and fix their own problems should not be rewarded or supported in any way... until they fix their problems. They did not do anything to deserve a reward, and they did many things that deserve punishment.

It's unfair to the people did their best to improve themselves to have to deal with problems from lazy, irresponsible people.

>When you were once a fresh grad and if no one is going to give you a chance, do you have today life as an experienced person working? You would be forever stuck at Square 1 isn't it?

Uh, I hate to tell you this, but even unpaid college internships have requirements. And I had to have at least one internship in order to graduate.

You see, I taught myself how to program. On my own time. When people saw the results of my efforts, if they like what they see, then they decide to invest in me.

You didn't do that. You have no skin in the game, so why would anyone risk their investment on someone who isn't proven? Your sob story is your own fault. You did this to yourself, you refuse to fix your problems that lead you into the hole you're in, and you deserve it. If you refuse to comply with other's expectations and prove yourself to them, then they will not give you chances.

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This job posting has a requirement that you do not meet. When a company specifically asks for a language, it is too much to expect that the company will be interested in teaching you how to program. &quot;It's a job, not a college course.&quot;

"Learning how to program" and "learning a language" are two different, but related things. That's also why people said that if you don't know ruby specifically, then perhaps you can repurpose knowledge from a different programming language. That's what "transferable skills" mean.

Companies can't train you because you don't have the prerequisite skills. It's like asking to get into a freshman-level class, but your grades from high school and your test scores were too low, so you have to take a remedial class first. Or when you enter grad school, you still have to take undergrad classes if you don't know the material from those classes.

Companies believe that the prerequisites are the applicants' responsibility. If you disagree, then just go apply anyway and figure it out for yourself.

You said you will not join a company that cares about skills and results. You know what this field cares about? Results. Literally, return values of a function are results. Based on what you said, it sounds like you wouldn't like this job or this field. Go find a position that meets your criteria. Apply to those instead.

Mini habits my friend.

Start with something stupid small and build from there.

My theory is that there's two core "strengths" that you need to develop in order to be successful: courage and discipline. These two strengths combat your two natural animal instincts: fear and apathy. As a caveman, these instincts are useful; fear keeps you from getting eaten and saying the wrong things to female tribe members (which are probably going to be the only women you encounter in your lifetime). Apathy keeps you from wasting energy when food and water weren't guaranteed resources. Problem is, in modern society neither of these traits are useful, because none of these dangers are present any more. So you've got to slowly develop these two strengths by incrementally pushing yourself a little bit at a time, consciously doing that which is opposite of your instincts of avoidance and apathy. Just like training a muscle.

So how do you "train" these two strengths? You wouldn't expect your skinny ass self to be deadlifting 400 lbs the first time you go to a gym; similarly, don't expect yourself to have the discipline to work for 12 hours a day or the courage to talk to that super cute girl. In anything you want to do right, you start small and start from the bottom, and every day you put some points on the board.

I'd recommend starting with two minihabits, in conjunction with chains. For your two minihabits, try to pick one that focuses on discipline and one that focuses on courage. For example:

• Do ten pushups a day (discipline)
• Do something that makes you slightly uncomfortable, such as asking a random stranger for the time (courage)

Now you might not resonate with these two at all, but the point is you need to pick small achievable habits that develop both your courage and discipline. And the next day, you add it to your chain if you did it or make a comment about why you didn't. What if you had a shit week and completely gave up? Forgive yourself and go back to your chains, update it and start again. When you feel like you've got a pretty good grip on these two, upgrade them to something harder or add other chains such as meditation or noFap if that's your thing. This is what I do, and I kind of see it as kind of an "engine" for my life - a way to consistently and reliably make myself better so I can get to where I wanna go in life.

Good luck.

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http://www.amazon.com/Mini-Habits-Smaller-Bigger-Results-ebook/dp/B00HGKNBDK

There. Thank me later.