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Jul27-aug03 Finally feel comfortable enough to take my algebra exam. Going to make a checklist of creation based on the following article

How do prolific creators maintain their momentum for so long? They commit an insane amount of time to their work without holding back.

“I wake at five in the morning. I get to work as early as I can. I work as long as I can. I do this every day of the week, including holidays.” Isaac Asimov said. To be prolific, he says, you must be a “singleminded, driven, nonstop person.”

Prolific output demands deliberate practice for as long as possible. There is no way around it. It requires you to create, design, produce, invent, code, draw, write or publish daily or weekly. That’s how you become better.

Practice takes you on a completely different creative journey. If you keep measuring and do more of what’s working, you will surprise yourself.

Cal Newport says, “Until you become good, you don’t have leverage.”

Many creative geniuses:

Start with curiosity and keep feeding their focus.

Start with the end in mind — know what you want before you start.

Do their best work first thing in the morning — without distractions. A lot of them are early risers. Ernest Hemingway preferred to work from 5 am. “There is no one to disturb you, and it is cool and cold, and you come to your work and warm as you write.” He said.

Take action almost every day — make time for what they do best.

Make time to wander — it leads to creative thinking. They nurture ideas even when they are not practising/working/creating. Deliberate walking is one of the most popular ways creative people think about their thinking. Beethoven loved walks.

Think in decades and maintain career progression for an extended period without losing focus.

Build a creative output system (a default routine) that makes them think less about effectively using their time and just getting to work every day.

The key is the consistency of action. The actions of highly creative people might not be perfect, but they take them anyway. The results might not be good enough, but they keep creating, building or writing anyway.

“Original thinkers will come up with ideas that are strange mutations, dead ends and utter failures. The cost is worthwhile because they also generate a larger pool of ideas — especially novel ideas,” says Robert Sutton. “Quantity is the most predictable path to quality,” he once said.

Insanely great creative people are good at sustaining effort for a very long time to get what they want. They structure their day to support their prolific lifestyle. But there is no universal routine for creative performance.

You have to figure out a personal style that supports your mental output. And then keep measuring until your routine becomes so good, you can’t afford not to create.

Regardless of what you do, creativity is a valuable skill you learn to do more great work. You can learn to think differently and connect ideas in unique ways or create the best conditions for genius to prevail.

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27Jul -03 felt comfortable enough to relax and just take my algebra exam on the 3rd after duty. Wishing myself luck

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26JUL

Managed to get to page 12 of my guide. Just a litttmkre motivated than before as Aayla reminded me to have a different/ better reward system. Im thinking that I’m going to incorporate sweets or meat as a reward. If i study at least 20 pages then i fet to eat meat. If not, i only eat vegetables. Its on to so

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25Jul2022

Found motivation to get studying but was interrupted by aFriend who wanted to chat. I need to find a better place to study

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24 July 2022 day 19

Birthday. Just wanted to study hut lots of work came up. Got underway yesterday. My goal is to finish studying my algebra class and take my test when we pull in

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23July2022. Really tried to hit my goals. I realized that i can really only focus on one thing - not 5 - at a time. Right now jt HAS to be school. I’m giving up on excelling at anything other than being a good student

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Day 17 downloading the pdfs for Sophia algebra to use while underway

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Day 16 21JUL2022

Answered my first algebra question in years. (List all the irrational numbers in this string). It took me about a week to get over the anxiety to answer this. Why? I dont know. I think I’m just worried about failing to be honest so I want to make sure that I have a complete understanding of everything. I realized that It’s not about acing the exam by knowing every detail, but 1. Acing the multiple choice exam but filtering out the obvious wrong answers and 2. passing the exam is all i really need. Its a pass/fail school and no one will care or even find out. if I ace it.

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Day 20 20Jul2022

Tried to see if using Sofia works on the work laptops. It doesn’t. Found a site

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Day 15 20Jul2022 Tried to see if using Sofia works on the work laptops. It doesn’t.

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Day 14 19JuL 2022

Feeling totally overwhelemed after looking at my first Sophia Algebra course. I have a hard time focusing on the coursework - I don't feel I am ready to start networking or even work on studying for my GRE. Not to mention FINRA certs or LBO modeling. Will update tmr on how I faired.

I am aware of the big publications but don't have time to read them now.

J.P. Morgan Asset Management (jpmorgan.com)

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Day 13 18JuL 2022

Spoke w sandy and found out what other forms of clep exist - Sophia, Saylor, etc. all for around 100USD/ month. Will probably end up doing those while underway. Also signed up for first CLEP.

Later in the evening did some research and made a little excel chart with what courses and where i would take them to fufill my gened requirements. turns out there are only a few classes that I CAN'T take to do so.

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Day 12 17JUL2022 realized that only three clep classes transfer to my accounting degree. Downloaded/ bought the clep study guides

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16 Jul 2022 Day 10

Sent in my transcripts. GPA in high school was 1.3, so I

Went with the UMGC transcripts i barley passed

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15 Jul 2022 Day 9

I was able to talk to Wharton and WG you about my plan. Basically WGU gives you a 3.0 grade point average when you graduate no matter what, and Wharton doesn’t care that he went to Wade accelerated school or even really that your GPA 3.0. There’s too many other factors to consider for that to really stop you. So I bought some books to help me get past my undergrad and into grad school. 

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14JUL2022 day 8

In the morning was able to verify through Wharton NBA school that my WGU or no name under red shouldn’t be that detrimental of the factor. After work I simply crashed on the bed. I think I need a rest day after seven days of working on both navy and IB

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13JUL2022 Day 7

Today I finally talked with a REAL investment banker - my uncle. Probably the best day of the year so far.

He assured me that with my timeframe, its ok to just get undergrad out of the way at anywhere regionally accredited and work to get into a top 15 MBA program. This led me down two paths today:

Accelerated Learning, places like Albertus MAgnus were first on ly list, now I know they are ok

2. ONLINE accelerated learning. The extreme of an accelerated leaning is to just do the whole thing online and to pay for it out of pocket. No reason to let work - which is refusing to pay for school - hold me back. WGU lets you cram as much per semester as you want and isn't that expensive out of pocket.

I'm not sure I even need to take the SAT anymore - just the GMAT.

No reading today, just research. I need to get more sleep.