Friday, August 10, 2018
First of all, I would like to point out that this is a meta post. I'm stating this fact, because I also want to state that I dislike writing meta. I dislike writing meta, because I feel like it's cheap.
I'll give you a perfect example. I don't know if they still do this, but when I was in elementary school, they encouraged kids to make speeches about stuff and then say them in front of the class. If your speech was good, then you say your speech in front of the school. This was usually reserved for grades 7 and 8, the final years of elementary school. Every now and then, a meta speech would be made, which is a speech about making a speech. Even as a young boy at the time, I thought this was cheap and for some reason parents and teachers loved it. I thought it was cheap, because it's so easy to do. I'm doing it right now and I just have to write down whatever comes to my mind about me writing this post. You see, I'm still doing it. It's like continuously driving around in a traffic circle (which I accidentally did the other day. It made me dizzy). You're driving and you're moving, but you're not really going anywhere new.
I'm just stating a fact, because I have to do it in order to make my point.
I've been timing myself when I write these blog posts. I start timing the minute I have successfully logged in to my computer and Microsoft stops trying to protect me from infecting myself by eating up all my CPU. It usually takes me two hours to write the posts I have been writing. Sometimes I can get more out of it if I have been thinking about a topic more. Timing myself consistently has unearthed this fact, that I would not have known if I didn't time myself. So, timing myself was highly beneficial for me and I have decided to write a post about it.
This post will have been made in thirty minutes as opposed to two hours. I've timed myself again and made a hard deadline. My time is running out, so I'll have to end this soon. The idea is to see what I can do in thirty minutes. I don't just write and post, I proofread, change things that I don't like or doesn't sound right when I read it to myself. This all takes time. The posting part is relatively quick, but could be faster.
All in all, I feel like making this post wasn't really that fun, because I put myself under the gun. I wanted to keep going and telling you more about how I hate meta posts, but I guess I can get into that in some other post. Also, timing yourself can be beneficial and help you make decisions.