Efficient Independent Study

I recently dropped out of university. The degree wouldn’t have been useful enough and I can just learn inpedendantly, after all.

Other than just reading good and reliable websites I think I have discovered some useful tools for doing this. Many of these attempts at efficient multitasking. I think that a lot of people are fairly skeptical of multitasking but I think that many of combinations of activities are seamlessly efficient and sometimes even compliment each other. I do think that some of my love of multitasking (and I am confessing it is a love) comes from primitive thrill that I get from doing some several times as efficiently as another person and I sometimes am a bit naive and try to combine too many. 

General:

1. Audiobooks

I find my attention span is good enough to do light research or other do other things that people do on the internet (yes, that too) while listening to audiobooks. 

2. Music

I really like metal and I would like to familiarize myself with more. So I often listen to metal while I am doing activities that are to attention consuming for me to listen to audiobooks for. I also occasionally listen to metal at the same time as I listen to audiobooks this requires me get the volumes right but I should really do this more often.

Specific combinations:

1. Watching a movie while working out.

Maybe I just don’t like sitting still, but this is a case where I feel that the activities genuinely compliment each other. I have now got myself into a routine (a regiment) where I will not watch a movie without working out at the same time. I like movie so this encourages me to work out more than I normally would.

2. Working while listen to an audiobook

If you can do this at your job then do it. It will make you enjoy your job so much more. I see this potential for a number of jobs, consider it for yours.