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This document discusses the importance of focus and flow for achieving mastery. It explains that masters can enter a state of "flow" where they are completely immersed and engaged in an activity. To achieve flow, one must focus intensely without distractions. Maintaining proper focus through avoiding over-caffeination allows our nervous system to function optimally and enter this state where we are most productive. The document advocates choosing sleep over caffeine and working with tools that facilitate flexible focus in order to more quickly progress toward mastery.
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Focus, SCNA 2011
- 2. Mastery
- 4. Focus
- 5. Masters can melt people with their minds
- 6. We spend most of our time here
- 8. What is 鍖ow?
- 9. Ill give you a hint...
- 10. ?
- 12. The mental states are remarkably similar
- 13. The 鍖ow of a master is much more effective
- 14. Our nervous system can only process 110 bits of information per second
- 15. Effects Completely involved (no notion of self) A sense of ecstasy Inner Clarity Con鍖dence in skills to solve the problem Serenity Timelessness Intrinsic motivation
- 16. Focus has an enemy
- 18. 25
- 19. When you over caffeinate, your nervous system cant funciton properly
- 20. You cant enter proper 鍖ow when in this state
- 21. BS!
- 22. We spend most of our time here
- 23. Achieving mastery requires proper focus
- 24. How do we get there?
- 25. Power
- 26. Power comes in multiple forms
- 28. Locality
- 29. Know when to apply what kind of power
- 31. Work in tools that allow 鍖exible application of power and elgance
- 32. Simplicity
- 34. initial implementation public class StringUtils { ! public static boolean isBlank(String str) { ! int strLen; ! if (str == null || (strLen = str.length()) == 0) { ! return true; ! } ! for (int i = 0; i strLen; i++) { ! if ((Character.isWhitespace(str.charAt(i)) == false)) { ! return false; ! }! }! return true;! }! } 34
- 35. - type decls public class StringUtils { ! public isBlank(str) { ! if (str == null || (strLen = str.length()) == 0) { ! return true; ! } ! for (i = 0; i strLen; i++) { ! if ((Character.isWhitespace(str.charAt(i)) == false)) { ! return false; ! }! }! return true;! }! } 35
- 36. - class public isBlank(str) { ! if (str == null || (strLen = str.length()) == 0) { ! return true; ! } ! for (i = 0; i strLen; i++) { ! if ((Character.isWhitespace(str.charAt(i)) == false)) { ! return false; ! }! }! return true;! } 36
- 37. + higher-order function public isBlank(str) { ! if (str == null || (strLen = str.length()) == 0) { ! return true; ! } ! every (ch in str) { ! Character.isWhitespace(ch);! }! return true;! }! 37
- 38. - corner cases public isBlank(str) { ! every (ch in str) { ! Character.isWhitespace(ch);! }! } 38
- 39. lispify (defn blank? [s] ! (every? #(Character/isWhitespace %) s)) 39
- 40. initial implementation Mutable state Condition public class StringUtils { ! public static boolean isBlank(String str) { ! int strLen; ! if (str == null || (strLen = str.length()) == 0) { ! return true; ! } ! for (int i = 0; i strLen; i++) { ! if ((Character.isWhitespace(str.charAt(i)) == false)) { ! return false; ! }! }! return true;! }! } Exit point Loop Exit point Exit point 40 Condition
- 41. Ok, im confused, how does this apply to mastery?
- 42. Focus and 鍖ow let us realize our potential
- 43. We learn by stretching beyond our limits
- 44. Entering 鍖ow helps us become more self aware
- 45. And sometimes here We should be tactically moving here
- 46. Effective focus helps you level up faster
- 47. You need to work with tools and languages that allow proper focus