The 3 laws of motion

We all know em!
We all love em!
but I took somethin' from em!
and I am NOT giving em back
em

For the uninitiated...

Newtons Laws of Motion describe the relationship between objects and the forces that act on them:

1. when a thing dont move it stay not moving unless something makes it move
2. how fast a thing go depends on how heavy it be and how hard you done threw it
3. when one thing hits another thing the second thing hit back as hard but backwards...

My beautiful extraction

When you break down the components of these laws you have objects, forces and relationships. I think these are the 3 elements you can categorise everything you want to learn about into.

Loop case study

If you have played around with programming before then you are probably familiar with loops and variables.

You arent a real programmer until you are forced to close the program because you wanted to see what would happen if you made an infinite loop print out something stupid.
double points if you had to restart your computer

So how does this fall into this objects, forces, relationships paradigm?

Take the following:

			
			x = 1

			while True:
				x = x + 1
				print(x)
			
		

Variables (in this case x and True) are objects which cannot do anything on their own.

The "while" keyword exerts a force which causes things to happen (in this case an infinite loop)

The relationship between the x variable and the while True line is a while loop that makes x become one more of itself during each loop

Understanding the objects, forces and relationships that make up a skill will surely lead to better understanding

Self help case study

I have a lot of things to say about self-help literature but for now I will restrain myself.

When you read self help there are 3 broad categories of things that are worth extracting if you are trying to use it for self help:

• Principles (or laws or rules or whatever), broad strokes
• Techniques (or methods or processes or whatever), things you do to implement the principles
• Factors (roadblocks or rockets), things that can either inhibit or accelerate progress.

In self help you are the object.

An object with a certain amount of clarity and agency to exert enough force for change.

The techniques are the forces you may exert not only on yourself but other objects such as distractions or commitment devices.

Relationships are a bit more broad.

The techniques have a relationship with the principles.

Factors have a relationship to the self-helpee and they can be positive or negative.

I'm not sure if it is a perfect metaphore but I do think this paradigm is useful. It is probably a more rudimentary version of something else.

Thanks for poly reading!

also I finished ultralearning