Crunched a bit

It so turns out to me that my normal day is littered with thoughts about lameness and how unmotivated the world in general is. But when exams near, these thoughts are replaced by ideas about how short life really is and how I should really be doing what I must be.

This also brings me to reflect on some of my older days. I used to bunk classes to get more time to study! However, I never became more efficient. In fact, I just got more frustrated because I felt like I was doing less!


I guess this happens to everyone. It’s the 'last day of life' syndrome. If you were living your last day of life and you knew it, you'd better darn live it well. The idea is, the feeling of having too much time on one's hands is leads you to actually do less than more, because you feel have more time! Simple! And then when you have tests and deadlines and exams, you tend to realize how less you actually care about it and how much wish you were doing something else. But - wait - tadaaaa, if you wished you were doing that something, then why aren't you? And thinking all this is a perfect way to waste all that time, when you're crunched a bit.

Problems and Solutions

I came across this amazing revelation a week ago.
The idea is this: There are two ways to solve a problem. To take a solution to a problem or to take a problem and get a solution.

This was a major paradigm shift me. I'm so accustomed to the former that the concept of another way being available was totally neglected.

The idea is that we can take a given skill and try to apply it to all the problems wherever possible and try to solve a part of the problems. Or, we could just take some certain problem and solve it completely by learning all the necessary skills. These viewpoints are so different, its really important to understand them.

When we take a solution to a problem, we may be working n our strengths, but when we're a team, its not so useful trying to run around to so many places. When we take a problem, then we'll be forced to learn something new and theres another important point that matters more: we want to solve the problem. That sort of motivation is really important in trying to solve a problem.