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#EngineerChallenge Day 018 :calculator:
I forgot to post an update for the past few days due to #procrastination. I was thinking how I can get myself to enjoy the process of answering problem sets. To answer this, I made a small script with #AutoHotkey which plays a satisfying sound when a specific key is pressed in order to #Pavlov myself into some #dopamine. It's minor but I think the audio cues help.
I went with a generic sniper shot SFX (attached herewith), since solving a few problems is not worthy of fancy fanfare (unless, of course it's those types of problems that take a long while to answer even though it's just one item) but it seems fitting since what we're doing are attempts at solving and not necessarily that we're always going to "score" a point.
I was ruminating for some days that reading textbooks first and then solving problems might not be the best way to raise my morale/motivation for the answering problem sets. Maybe I could better sustain momentum if I answered problem sets first? Then when I'm stuck I go looking for relevant information so that my reading is motivated, intentional, and clear about what I want to get out of the act of #studying (i.e. not just get to the end of the chapter for progression's sake). A textbook isn't fiction so there's no right sequence to reading it...
On the other hand, I also often get derailed by other inquiries that pop up. I was thinking of relegating those to the backburner and come back to them once my focus wanes from solving problem sets, i.e. #StructuredProcrastination [0], to help maximize use of the limited 12 hours of the day.