After June 2023

In a corner of my room, there is a pile of books I have not read. I have been working hard this year too, but looking back, I have not accomplished much. I have come to realize that time is finite and there is so much to study. That said, I do not want to give up on the things I want to do. I need to carve out time and read books intensively. I set a goal: to read one book per week (that way I can finish all the books in my room by the end of next year). The goal is not just to read and be done with it, but to organize what I have understood and post it on my blog. Simply working hard does not stick with me. Deliberate effort is needed. I hope to have a process where I verify whether I have understood something well, and if possible, explain it to someone and receive feedback.

When trying to do something, I need to develop the habit of investing time into it. If I try to get results too quickly, I am bound to be disappointed, and I end up making poor judgments because I cannot think deeply enough. While programming, there were times when I encountered extremely tedious tasks (a prime example being following tutorials). Because I thought these tasks were bothersome and kept looking for shortcuts, I was left with very little.

I watched a video called The One Thing People Who Succeed Overwhelmingly Have in Common on a YouTube channel called Yonsoonam, and it left a strong impression. For reference, this person graduated top of the engineering school at Yonsei University, someone who has truly mastered the art of studying. In the end, I came to think that OUTPUT is the most important thing (in Yonsoonam's case, he reportedly made heavy use of Word). No matter how much input you take in, if you have never had the experience of producing output, you will not be able to produce output in the actual situation. Even if a lot of input lets you get lucky a few times, expecting stable output from that alone is wishful thinking. I feel this strongly when speaking English (just because you have read many documents or watched many videos in English does not mean you can automatically speak English).

Korean (writing, speaking), English (writing, speaking), video editing, coding (Flutter, Spring, MySQL), Hadoop (Druid, Spark) -- I need to consistently practice outputting what I have been inputting.