[_8j50]

I am fighting this battle myself, absorbing and retaining raw knowledge is easy for me but I am not that good at CTFs because I don't practice RE and pentesting enough.

One of my big regrets is spending too much time in chatrooms and forums in my 20s instead of practicing. Now I have less capacity to do that because I do this stuff (and love it) as part of my job, I need a break afterwards.

In CTFs either I get distracted or I follow red herrings because of curiosity and waste time.

One thing that helped me before and I am recently considering is getting rid of TV/netflix/prime and social media (maybe exempt HN? Lol) to help with time.