Learning Goals: Week 49

Learning Goals: Week 49

According to the WEEKNUM function in Google Sheets, this week is #49 of 2015. I use this function in order to filter my target and tracking information for my charts.

In any case, I haven't yet managed to hit an unqualified success in a week, though there are some successes to be found.

For starters, I finally opened up the AI course again. I stopped at 1.5 hrs rather than pushing through to 2 hrs, but it was a really good stopping point. We'd just covered what happens in a Bayes Network when a single outcome has two probabilistic causes and were about to dive into a new topic, so it was a good place to pause.

One thing that is becoming apparent to me over the course of this experiment in self-education is that I do much better with classroom situations. I'm consistently hitting a good number of hours--including homework--in French class. For Toastmasters I'm not doing a ton outside of the meetings, but I am hitting the meetings consistently.

So I may have to face the reality that I'm not quite yet ready for self-management, and may need to arrange more situations where I have classes and/or managers and/or other social obligations if I want to really succeed.

Then again, I may need to more deeply consider what I perceive success to be. If the yoga instruction goes well in the spring and is able to provide me with a stable, modest income, I may be able to relax a bit and just study what suits my fancy rather that getting all official and guilt-ridden about it, as I have a tendency of doing.

In any case, here's the next set of goals. Total hours are again 16. I've boosted French to 5 hours because the amount of homework we've been getting has been going up. I may try to focus some of my Writing hours onto doing my next Toastmasters speech, because I should get on that. I really enjoyed the last one, and I have no shortage of topics to speak about.