Everyday Systems

As the title says.
I have many interests and way too many books and textbooks.
Unfortunately in the past I have seldom been persistent enough to finish any of them on my own, and recent experience has shown I tend to stop going to non-mandatory classes after a while.

So I want to finish, well, quite a lot of them, but for starters I'll focus on my "KP" textbook. Note: for privacy I won't detail exactly what it is about.

"KP" textbook: 198 pages + 24 pages of vocabulary index, 30 chapters.
I've more or less studied the first 4 chapters already, in fits and starts over the past 2 years.
Well now I just have to finish it
I'm not giving myself a deadline but if I was done by the end of September it would be nice, because I would then join a class on a slightly different topic.

Feel free to join in with your own textbook(s), and/or share your experience with self-study.

well, for today I reviewed the introduction on pages 2 and 3 and read the first page of chapter 5.

Spent about 1h memorizing the definitions in chapters 4 and 5.

Rose, you are trying to finish a textbook? Ugh, I would think that time would be far more enjoyable reading a real book! If your textbook is science, find a popular science book. If your textbook is Spanish, read a book in Spanish. You know what I mean? Textbooks are dry! Books are Alive!

hmm yes I know what you mean.
But I don't just want to understand the topic, I want to memorize and be able to use it. This textbook contains exercises which will help me do that (hopefully).
And yes it's more difficult but also more rewarding imho. Anyway the difficulty is why I intend to post daily here for motivation. I wouldn't need to do that if it was easy...
That said, perhaps I should also make time to read easier books on the same topic as you suggested... but reading such books alone I would forget the details immediately. I need some difficulty and hands-on practice to memorize things.
Thank you for the suggestion.

Not exactly a good day at work.
I had planned to do the exercises from the first part of chapter 5 today but I felt tired and skipped to read the start of the 2nd part which is more interesting than the first part.
17' - nothing exceptional but I'll count it as a success habit-wise.
Tomorrow I have a day off work and 3 appointments. Now I make a 4th appointment with the chapter 5 exercises

About 1h doing the exercices of the 2nd part of chapter 5 and reading on wikipedia.
I will need to do exercise 3 again and do the exercises in chapter 5 part 1 that I skipped.

17' spent mainly on exercice 6 of chapter 5.

27' spent on chapter5 part 1 exercises 1 and 2.2, plus review of chapter 5 part 2 exercice 3.
I will need to review exercices 1 and 2.2.

33' - quickly reviewed chapter 5 part 1 exercise 2.2, then spent more time on exercise 3.

Well, it looks like this 3-day weekend was either S or failed

18' review of chapter 5 part 1 exercise 3.

20' chapter 5 self evaluation exercise 1 (not finished)

Good going Rose!

thanks eschano
today 19' spent on chapter 5 self evaluation exercise 2 and a little bit of exercise 1.

21' spent on reading the first page of chapter 6 and reviewing chapter 5 part 2.

Sometimes though, textbooks are required. I recall a philosophy text from college, oy vey!

17' reading on the internet about chapter 5 topics.

19' reading chapter 6

38' preparing review sheet for definitions of chapter 6 (unfinished)

18' reading chapter 6 + exercise 3.

33' chapter 6 main exercise

28' reading on the internet to help understand/memorize the definitions of chapter 6 part 2.

38' reading on the internet + note taking to help understand/memorize the definitions of chapter 6 part 2.

30‘ chapter 6 part 1 exercises 3,6,7

29' chapter 6 self evaluation, chapter 6 part 2 exercises 1,2

18' trying to get chap 6 part 2 to stick.

40' chapter 6 part 2 exercises 1,2,3.

It looks like you are doing great. I love learning new things. Do you have plans to use your new found knowledge?

hi gingerpie, it won't be useful right away but I am interested in the topic and who knows, it could be useful some day...

today 24' spent on chapter 6 part 2 exercises 1-4.

26' chapter 6 part 2 exercise 4. Still a little bit that I don't get.

hmm 3 failed days
Today 15' spent on chapter 7.

17' mostly spent on chapter 7

26' chapter 7 exercises 1.2, 1.3

16' reviewing chapter 6.

20' reading chapter 7 and some review of chapter 6.

29' review cards for chapter 6

Hi Rose-
You're doing great! That's soo good to be using the NoS principles to get through something worthwhile like continuing learning. I'm currently taking a distance course, so I have the enforced discipline of weekly check-ins with an instructor and assignments, but I'd love to adopt your method for keeping up with things when the course is over. (It's language, so if I don't keep it up, I will probably lose whatever gains I will have made.)

18' definitions of chapter 7.

Hi Osoniye, thank you for the encouragements and good luck with your studies

20' spent on definitions of chapter 7.
I'm switching to negative tracking for a while, see what happens...

failure today

time to 'fess up: I had several weeks of failures due to vacations and having difficulties getting back to it afterwards. Restarted a few days ago and had again a failure yesterday.
Today was a success though. I'm still on lesson 7.

I guess no matter the system there is always that bit where it's suddenly hard. But you were doing so well so there's no doubt in my mind that you get back into it soon.

Thanks eschano.
Well I seem to be back on track but at the rate of 15' per day I'll be stuck on this textbook for quite a while

failure yesterday
success today.

Good job getting back to it today. I'm trying to do this with re-learning Spanish, but it seems to be falling by the wayside the last month. I have been tracking it with lots of red... Keep up the good work.