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You’re not too busy, you’re just not in control of your time. Instead of think Am I too busy? you should ask yourself Is this a priority? Every week has 168 hours. The average American sleeps for 8 hours each night and works about 43 hours per week. That leaves 69 hours for everything else, every week. But keeping up with modern life makes us feel there’s no time left to engage in the things that make us happy. You can understand how you’re actually spending your time by creating a time log, log everything you do for each hour for 2-3 weeks. Only then you will get an accurate picture of what you’re doing with your time. ...

To be creative your mind must be rested and stress-free. Sleep is frequently overlooked when it comes to improved creativity, people who prioritizes sleep tends to have tends to have both more creativity and cognitive power. You should widen your creativity and avoid a narrow focus - to become creative, you need to do creative things. If you want to paint, you could also try other creative things like writing or dancing. ...

When learning, you should break down your goals into more manageable steps, helping you to progress faster. Mistakes and challenges are essentials to learn, find a way to persist through these. Overambitious expectations will make the progress feel slow, while overly modest ones makes it feel uninteresting. There are six stage that you need to go through, in order without skipping a step, to master a subject: Remembering, Understanding, Applying Analyzing, Evaluating, and Creating. Aim for skill stacking, becoming part of the top 1% is nearly impossible but stacking “good enough” skills can create an unique combination of abilities. Reaching the top 10-15% is doable by reading a few books, attending a course and some deliberate hands-on practice. See the Pareto Principle - 20% of work creates 80% of the outcome. ...