Operation Achieve Anything: Day One-Hundred-Eighty-Nine, Dateline 7-8-2018
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“Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.”
Good morning Crickets. Welcome to day number one-hundred-eighty-nine of Operation Achieve Anything. Today, I'm trying something new in order to take a legitimate day off and not just have one where I'm going easy. Most of the time when I take a day off that means, it's the weekend and I don't have the day job, and maybe I have a backup SNL review already in the chamber and ready to post, but there's still the work involved in publishing and sharing the work, and that still leaves this Daily Breaker segment to tend to.
Where with the Saturday Night Live challenge, I just said that I would average watching and reviewing one show a day so I will often watch two or three in a row in order to build up a stockpile of content to use for mini challenge vacations. The Daily Breaker, on the other hand, is a post the I've promised to make daily and for the last three or four years. I've only missed a hand full of days from when I moved back to San Diego from Seattle and my workspace wasn't set up, and a few weeks between 365 Days of Resolution and this new SNL Challenge when I almost decided to give up on writing altogether because I was that depressed.
Tonight, I realized a technicality that I can't believe took this long to come to me, where now that it's 2:00 in the AM, it's already technically tomorrow so I can write and share my daily post so that I can have absolutely no obligation when I awake. I don't know what I'll do with myself because, knowing me, I'll get a wild hair up my ass and find myself driven to do even more work to get even more ahead in order to relieve some stress. Maybe having a sciatica outbreak at this time is a good thing that might actually keep me in bed to finally take a legitimate break that I actually need.
I don't say that I need a break in a, "Woe is me," tone because I'm fully aware that most of the work that stresses me out are personal projects where I would be the only one who felt letdown if I didn't stick to my obsessive schedule. Personal or professional, everyone needs to just do nothing from time to time which is my plan for tomorrow.
In order to get there, it's now time to chime in with the finding from my assignment. For yesterday's task, I was supposed to explain what I do to keep learning now that I'm no longer attending a legitimate school with the lesson being that you never want to get to a point where you stop taking in new educational information. I know this is a rough time for this, in the era of fake news where no matter which side you align yourself with, the other side isn't telling the truth, but I'd like to think that I'm continuing to education myself every single day.
Whether I'm signing up for weird classes on Udacity.com, watching random documentaries or listening to interesting podcast, I am constantly taking in information from all sorts of sources that cover the entire spectrum of belief because I'm desperate to figure out what life is all about. Hell, even the Saturday Night Live challenge has turned out to be a very interesting history lesson. Some time a sketch will touch on a topic that I was unaware of and then I'll spend the rest of the day casually researching the subject.
Part of me wishes that I wasn't as casual with my research as I am, satisfied by hearing the information that I need to hear and not going deeper to the point where I could actually articulate my finding in order to share with others but at least I have fun while I learn, and I'm also pretty sure that the things that I study pop up in my fictional work were I can play with concept while not having to commit to what I actually believe about the subject because I've never claimed or wanted to be an expert.
Today's assignment kind of contradicts yesterday's in that it claims that too much information can actually be a bad thing. That said, it's not contradictory in a negative way but more trying to say to consider all of the filters that the information you are learning are going through, especially when it comes to the internet, and this is before it started to feel like information was starting to be weaponized.
Of course, I'll delve deeper into this topic in at least twenty-two hours when it technically becomes tomorrow. Until then, it's now time for me to sign of as usual by saying, good day and good luck to you and all of your projects.
Talk to you soon.
Sincerely,
The Wicker Breaker
P.S. Below are links to my novel, which I plan to promote as part of Operation Achieve Anything, as well as a link to where you can buy the book that is providing the structure to this project in case you would like to purchase it in order to play along.
