{"id":4080,"date":"2024-03-04T01:07:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-04T06:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=4080"},"modified":"2024-02-17T08:21:00","modified_gmt":"2024-02-17T13:21:00","slug":"next-level-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2024\/03\/next-level-everything\/","title":{"rendered":"Next-Level Everything"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Stretching the mind is generally a good thing. There are many ways to do this, so just do it<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Over the years, I have spent hours playing the guitar. If I spend half-an-hour a day playing day after day, what I play starts to resemble jazz. I have some sort of lifetime membership to <a href=\"https:\/\/nextlevelguitar.com\/premium\/\">Next Level Guitar<\/a>. The idea there is I open a new lesson, can&#8217;t play a bit of it, but work on the lesson for a week. A few weeks later, I come back to it, and I can play it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At this time, once a day, I go to <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/\">Cornell University&#8217;s arXiv site<\/a> and read most of a paper. These are pre-publication research papers. As such, they stretch the current state of the art. I don&#8217;t understand everything that I read, but I find that a few weeks later I can discuss the topic of the paper. Somehow, time and more papers have increased my brain in some way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I just picked up <a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/book\/10.1007\/978-1-0716-1418-1\">&#8220;An Introduction to Statistical Learning.&#8221;<\/a> I bought this a couple of years ago, read the first 100 pages, but became side tracked with something else. I am reading again. I don&#8217;t understand everything, but as above, I am learning more than I realize.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These are next-level exercises. I try to do something that is beyond what I can do. I am stretching. I find that to be a good thing. Perhaps I don&#8217;t &#8220;get it&#8221; all, but I seem to understand more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This can be quite rewarding to me. This can also be quite annoying to others. I need to learn to exercise and stretch and not tell others too much about it. Thank you for reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips Stretching the mind is generally a good thing. There are many ways to do this, so just do it. Over the years, I have spent hours playing the guitar. If I spend half-an-hour a day playing day after day, what I play starts to resemble jazz. I have some sort of lifetime [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[238,105,90,363,316,106,20],"tags":[240,219,207,364,317,220,142],"class_list":["post-4080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-analysis","category-competence","category-education","category-growth","category-improvement","category-knowledge","category-learning","tag-analysis","tag-competence","tag-education","tag-growth","tag-improvement","tag-knowledge","tag-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4080"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4081,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4080\/revisions\/4081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}