🌱 rigid planning leads to short term successnotes and 🌱 half-truths

Structure lowers mental overhead A good workflow is carefully balanced between freedom and structure, but rigidity makes work boring. It turns knowledge work into just work, instead of exciting exploration.

(Rigid) Planning is the opposite of an adventure. You know already where everything leads. Using a zettelkasten to explore a topic enables serendipity, moving into unexpected directions. This will be like an intrinsic rewards system: spelunking in your own research seeking short term external rewards is dangerous and harmful. Personal motivation, fueled by successful work is a solid long-term solution.

Literature notes

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– How to Take Smart Notes - Sönke Ahrens

don’t follow normal study practices, become an expert instead

universities teach short term study habits
- this leads to people not follow up later in life
experts have good habits
- will continue after graduation

short term study habits are decremental to proficiency

Status quo - universities create/foster planners
- grading is easier with planners: give task - measure task
  - universities are bureaucracies → money
- short term thinking
- it’s how things have been done for a while
downside of being a planner
- its no fun → procrastinantion
  - short term, nobody wants to do this forever
    - leads to shortcuts and shoddy work “who cares”
Expert vs planner
- its fun to be good at something
  - long term → life long pursuit
    - invested in good long term habits
      - slower
        
        might not even have such good grades in the beginning