I am a Thai Bhuddhist (yes there is a difference) and it was part of our practice when ever we visited the temple. Around once a month for 30min to 1 hour during service we would observe medition while listening to the sutras. Since moving to New Zealand, this practice was no longer followed and I have since been out of touch with it but understand the idea and the basics behind it. It is nice, to no have to spend 10mins of each morning calming the mind. I used to enjoy it once and I'm sure I will again.
I've always been bias towards it, but that is because I belive in spirituality and mental peace. It is an internal journey that ultimately leads you to understanding what it means to do nothing and be alright with it. Taking time out of your day to calm your mind and reflect on the things you are thankful for, if done daily then I beleive that this will lead to a more positive predisposition rather than one of much negativity that a lot of people (myslef included) are prone to do.
That the mind shift's it focus very quickly and tries to find too much to concentrate on at the same time. It was hard to concentrate on one thing at first but after following the instructions it became quite instinctive to return to breathing. It shows that training the mind into a quiet state is possible with regular practice.
Very nice! I felt slightly tingly and energized afterwards. It was easier to concentrate on something without drifting but the duration of the productivity is still quite short. I trust that will soon change.
Everyday after a small amount of morning routine, at 10am will be 10mins of meditation before I begin my studies from now on.
It was strange to do such intense listening to someone I've literally just met but atleast we had the same thing in comming to begin with.
The talking was interesting. It was terrifying at first as you are sitting there thinking "wow.... this person actually HAS to listen to 2mins of whatever drivel that comes out of my mouth" but that soon subsided as I remembered that we were actually talking about a predetermined topic.
The listening was easy as I am used to it with my job. The Loop technique required no interruptions throughout the 2mins process which allowed some time for reading my loop partner's expressions and pay attention to how speech was delivered as well, helps me understand what was being said with a little more insight into how the person felt.
For this particular part of the course it requires a lot of understanding. I often referred to resources that showed a lot fo examples along side the explanations. I did ofcourse go through all the lessons on freecodecamp but found them to be extremely hard to understand at times. The language used was not very clear at explaining the way the certain functions, commands and structure worked. I used Udacity along side it to help supplement my lack of understanding in those parts.
Yes I did keep withing the timebox but definitely feel that I will need a lot more time with the basics in order to "master" the basics of the language properly. About 75% of it made sense while the other 25% will need a few more hours of work.
If I did this exercise again I believe that I will still get stuck at the same parts as it required me to remember/research the commands that are needed and how the code should be structured in order to produce the results that I want. I will likely get stuck at the same parts again because of their complex nature, most of the problem was my lack of command over the language and actually understanding what I have been asked to do. I got stuck on functions and loops the longest.
I was interested in what the DOM or The Document Object Model was and how it is connected with what we were learing. The basic gist of it was easily found in the articles and videos that I looked into but quickly grow bored when it came to the more indepth look into the DOM itself. Most of the resources spoke of the commands that can be used inside the DOM to manipulate and change data in HTML/JavaScript. Although examples were given and results shown, the lack of interactive aspect to the learning process made the content a little tedius.
I durrently have 8 tabs open and all of them are learning related.. . but that doesn't mean that I dont have my phone right next to the computer.
I initially tried to watch the whole video without interacting along with it (as I wasn't too sure how...) and my attention level plummeted. I just couldn't follow along well enough and quickly lost interest. I then got up, made myself a cup of tea (pomodoro) and walked around in circles (yes I do that when I'm frustrated) then proceeded to sit back down and re-read the learning objectives. I revisited the steps and links then managed to get a local version of the video working and strated to try the functions out with the video. It worked, I even thought some of the stuff was super cool dspite how some parts nearly killed my laptop (its very old). I think me strength (being tenacity) really paid off because I didn't give up but my limitations (lack of self-confidence/value) definitly got the better of me in the first half of the exercise.
I think as outlined by the last point, I took a step back, had a look at the content again to properly gain an understanding, then jumped right back in. I find that I need to be DOING something like work with it or take notes inorder for the knowledge to sink in to a certain degree.
Yes... Shamelessly so.... but will not be showing the general public what I have done (haha!).