At any given moment, how we are using our time in the immediate present can move us towards or away from our goals in the future. I’ve recently been rolling an idea around in my head that can best be represented with the following, admittedly shitty, diagram: ![[images/productive-conscious-1.png]] There are two groups of activities: Productive - an activity that “produces” some tangible asset that may be useful to someone else.

The following is a review and summarisation of the course Learning How to Learn: Powerful mental tools to help you master tough subjects. This course originally came to my attention after watching one of Daniel Bourke’s impressive videos on his process of self education for Artificial Intelligence. At the time I brushed off the topic thinking that anything other than the ‘pure’ content of what I was trying to learn would be wasting my time.