style of consuming

is it better to consume 1 thing at a time, or spread your mind on various things?

Consume a few things a little at a time and use it to create

>>1405 reasoning behind this?

>>1406 Not the orignal person you were talking to but if your talking about consuming/indulging In mulitiple activities/learning multiple subjects at the same time I think it would be better to do as few as possible and as consistently as possible (everyday) to help with the memorization of it or you will end up forgetting parts of what your learning. Remember, the man who hunts 2 rabbits catches none!

Being a person who consumes multiple things at the same time constantly i can tell you for sure consuming one thing at a time is better.

I guess I'm taking the contrarian position because I find that spreading my time across many different interests is most satisfying. The trick is to scale the amount of time you spend on each thing proportionally to how important it is to you. Think on multiple time scales. Trying to set up a weekly schedule where you visit each of your hobbies for a few hours is a recipe for failure (in my experience anyway). Better to plan on spending the entire day on something but maybe only revisit it a couple times a week or even every couple months. For example I've been trying to learn a little bit of 3d modeling and animation for about a year now. It's just a hobby and a pretty low priority one at that so I'd never find the time for it if I tried to factor it into my weekly schedule. Instead I just devote a day or two to it every couple months. Progress is slow but proportional to my interest level. One problem with this approach is you can get trapped in the post-novice/pre-baseline-proficiency stage (i.e. after the novelty has worn off but before you're good enough to be motivated by the quality of your own work in the area) for a long time. Sometimes this is ok. Just don't get frustrated and have faith that eventually you will progress through it. For things that have a steep initial learning curve I've found that a week or two of autistic devotion can do wonders. In other words it's sometimes a good idea to consciously violate the interest proportion rule.

Another trick I've learned is to use my passive down time for hobbies in a way that still lets me mentally recharge. For example, a year or so ago I wanted to learn how to work on my car, so in my free time when I was too mentally drained to do anything active I'd watch youtube videos about car maintenance. I did this for months before I ever picked up a wrench. However when I eventually started taking it more seriously I already had a ton of background knowledge and context. I knew the names of various tools and how they are used, what different car parts are called, and most importantly where to find more information about the things I hadn't learned. I could have probably learned all that stuff in day or two of active learning but by doing it passively over a longer amount of time I freed up my mental energy for higher priority things.

I don't like spreading myself thin because inevitably it gives me less drive to consume anything that I've gotten myself into and will more than likely lead something unconsumed and left behind indefinitely. 1 thing at a time is definitely a better way.

>>1404 >is it better to consume 1 thing at a time, or spread your mind on various things? How do you mean? Like drinking sprite while watching a TV series or something?

>>1484 Like watching and focusing on one series at a time or keep up with multiple ones. Single tasking is better, this is solid advice too >>1411

I've got ADHD brain I love to do 2-3 things at a time..........don't take my advice

>>1485 One drama interspersed with one comedy works for me, or 2-3 episodes of one and then switch. Also it's fun to keep around some four minute long cartoons like Coyote vs Road Runner or Tales of the Wizard of Oz to break things up. Something really involved like Deadwood though, I will watch without interruptions. Think of it like a 36 hour long motion picture with intermissions for sleep and food