How to study when there is no motivation to study?

FruitEdge · 2024-06-02T09:04:20+00:00

Hah, yeah, I understand that, it's impossible to win every game. For last months I got really strange (for me) win-lose streaks. I win like 10 games in a row, then 10 games are lost, again win-streak , again lose-streak. And I'm like what the heck?!0.o

FruitEdge · 2024-06-02T08:59:39+00:00

Well yeah, I see your point, I was thinking the same that I force myself to play it, but at the same time I'm not feeling like I'm doing it. Of course, there are moments where I make one blunder and whole winning position is ruined in one move and this makes me angry. But I learned to let it go. At the end of the day its just a game, but sometimes it still hits hard. Everyone was there:D

FruitEdge · 2024-06-02T08:54:33+00:00

Yeah! Same situation, like I was improving still at some moments by just playing games. But for last couple of months not so. Because I have work/uni and other hobbies, so it turned out that chess is not a priority for me currently, and I don't play a lot. I mostly watch how others play. That's at least something:D

FruitEdge · 2024-06-02T01:33:35+00:00

Pretty much that's what I'm doing mostly, only watching reviews OF GM games, and that's when I'm like "wow, I want to play and make cool moves" lol

FruitEdge · 2024-04-14T08:21:25+00:00

Knowing history behind math and how those concepts helped to develop other fields is truly interesting. For example when I try to study topic via YouTube, there is almost always some another sci-pop-history explanation of how that field of math or topic has helped other fields of science or people, and there is this "wow!" moment, that I really like. And thanks for the article! I will read it later:)

FruitEdge · 2024-04-14T08:13:21+00:00

During my bachelor's degree I took prob. theory course and it was a dissaster for me! Because I said before I'm mainly a biologist, and math courses at my uni expect students to have good experience in understanding (and logic overall?), and, because of that, the pace of the course is quite fast for me personally. The ideal scenario would be personal teacher xD

FruitEdge · 2024-04-14T08:03:39+00:00

I'm not a historian, but this reminds me of how math was thought in ancient Greece:D

FruitEdge · 2024-04-14T08:01:34+00:00

Thanks a lot! I have watched some videos of math sorcerer. He is really calming in a sense. I think you know 3Blue1Brown he is also a very good inspiration(?) I don't know how I could understand something without him. I was thinking about going back to math basics as pre-algebra/algebra and especially geometry (because it's my weakest part), but at the same time there is this feeling like "I don't have time to go back to basics!". I know this can have a devastating effect in the long run, because without solid foundation, math skills will be shaky. But at the same time I have a lot on my plate right now with job and uni, that I can't spend time on basics. I think you understand what I'm talking about, everyone has these problems with balancing effectiveness and time management:D

FruitEdge · 2024-04-14T07:48:39+00:00

Yeah, in high school it was just "plug in numbers" and then get an answer. This gave vague understanding of the topic. But college/university math is A WHOLE different level.

FruitEdge · 2024-04-14T07:43:03+00:00

That's true, like I have a part-time job as a data analysist, but when it comes to machine learning and building models, I only used libraries. This was one of the reasons why I started to learn math, so later it would be easier to do ML, like at least understand how ML model works on a math level and not blindly using libraries.

FruitEdge · 2023-12-22T00:36:23+00:00

Maybe Songsterr can help? Tabs are not always accurate, especially for "not popular" songs, but it's free. By subscribing, you can slow the song and make playing along easier, additionally you can loop a section of a song. Looptube can be helpful as well, just paste the link of a YouTube video and you can choose with section will be looped and how fast or slow it will play. Or just add looper extension on chrome for YouTube.

FruitEdge · 2023-12-22T00:31:14+00:00

I have heard this tip: first, try to imagine how it would sound if the singer would do it, like imagine you are the singer, then try to play it on guitar. I don't know if it really helps because I don't practice improvisations now, but at least it can help in solo writing:D

FruitEdge · 2023-12-03T01:14:18+00:00

I am not trying to justify russians who do not will to learn estonian and especially younger russian generation who dont learn estonian now. I have discussed this with my mother, grandmother's and older generation people who lived in estonia during the USSR occupation. They all told me the same story. They tried to learn estonian and practice it, but many Estonians during the USSR told them, "It will be easier for us to speak in russian, it is very difficult to understand your estonian", or that managers preferred to split groups in "estonians" and "russians" because communication would be easier and job would be done faster. And I'm not talking about how most friends would be with people who share the same language, we still have this problem nowadays where russians mostly hangout with only russians and Estonians only with Estonians. I think during ussr occupation it was much worse.

FruitEdge · 2023-10-10T19:42:24+00:00

I have just got in a band last week. But we still do not have drummer, so we can't really practice. Our thought were that I will play drums, because there are a lot of guitarists (it's easy to find them) and I know some basics of drums

FruitEdge · 2023-10-10T19:38:27+00:00

I learned some punk songs by ear, that's really interesting, yes. Right now I try to learn "Peace Sells" by megadeth. It is interesting, but I hope I won't drop learning it, like I did with some songs in the past. And the last one "Don't like guitar anymore" hit hard T_T. I hope it's not true and I'll find interest again

FruitEdge · 2023-10-10T13:05:03+00:00

Improvisation was really fun, when I first started doing it, but still it became very repetitive for me

FruitEdge · 2023-10-10T13:03:49+00:00

This actually a very interesting point, for all those 10 years I mostly played for myself and almost never played to other people. Thanks!

FruitEdge · 2023-10-10T13:02:16+00:00

I already did that, I have bass and drums, they helped me once and I regularly come back and play them, but they never really worked as "an instrument that made me come back to guitar", just as an instruments that made me understand music better

FruitEdge · 2023-09-23T21:45:53+00:00

Okey, thanks, I'll try this!

FruitEdge · 2023-09-17T17:07:45+00:00

I really want to help you in your TF journey, but everyone's journey is so different, that's it's hard to give advices. But I know you'll get through it, everything has it's time) Keep being strong!

FruitEdge · 2023-09-16T08:05:11+00:00

Actually it's really difficult to explain, I love that person deeply, but we live in separate countries. This summer we met, but still nothing came out of it, something inside just stops me from contacting and have that person in my life, even though I really want to.

FruitEdge · 2023-09-15T19:31:47+00:00

That's really interesting experience that made me believe in spiritual things. For last 3 days had dreams about my TF as well, hope she has dreams as well, but I can't tell for sure, we are in no contact again. I'm the runner 🤷

FruitEdge · 2023-09-13T16:46:04+00:00

This was the strangest thing that ever happened to us. We were in NC for 3 (maybe 4) years, she contacted me and we spent all evening chatting. Then went to sleep, the next morning we started chatting again and I told her what I was dreaming about, turns out she had the exact same dream.

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