| School gives people a warped sense of time. Potentially, you will spend the rest of your life learning English. Learning programming. They are important. They are not urgent. Which is good because they take time. But there are not going to be tests. Studying for school is urgent and marginally important in the sense that it is better to study than not. But the reason it is marginally important to study is that studying is a good habit. The same with exercise...again a good habit. Habits last a lifetime. Learning English or programming are not habits because what happens each day is not repetitious. The repetitious part is the studying which can be a habit. The subject matter will always vary if you are learning. Lists are helpful only if they are helpful. By which I mean that putting something on the list means it is more likely to be done. "Learn Programming" isn't a list item. But "Write FizzBuzz in Smalltalk" might be. It's only a list item if sitting down to program for the sake of programming is a habit and if you are interested in Smalltalk enough to write FizzBuzz. But it is ok if you are not all that interested in doing so. Trying is how you find out. Trying to work-out at the gym is how you find out working out at the gym is not for you, but walking there and back might be your thing and so you take up urban hiking or something like that. Good luck. |