mind supplement

With a bit of reading about motivation and stuff, I become feeling better. Suddenly I realised that actually the motivationless symptom that I suffered is actually an illness that makes me feel down. My mind is ill and needs mind-food or mind-supplements. And with some deep thinking about life and goals, I found direction and light.

When I did my deep thinking, I frequently apply a technique that I realised its usefulness when I did my FYP. During that period of time, I faced tons of doubts, confusion and stress. Lost direction and the ability to analyze problems. Then I started picking up late night jogging to relax myself and followed a problem analysis session quietly at the neighbourhood fitness corner.

The technique I used is actually an understand the problem technique that ask myself "what is the problem? What is it that I don't know?". This technique is especially useful when one lost his/her analytical ability through overflooded with doubts. How the technique works is self explainatory and a commonly known name for it is divide-and-conquer.

It is very hard to solve a problem when one doesn't have the answer to all the sub problems within the big problem or even unable to see what is EXACTLY the problem. Its only when you break down the big problem to smaller ones then you find out what exactly is the problem. So in this sense, the problem is actually the problem of skipping the process of understanding the problem and jump straight into the process of solving the problem.