Introduction
You might wonder sometimes, what to do in your free time. Everyone gets confused at some point in time every day. It is not about one day or two days. This question arises in our mind every day. If we ask people for what they do in their spare time, we will surely get answers like - "I read books", "I listen to songs", "I watch movies" etc. but my question is - Does it really help? Or does it make any sense? Or does it even increase our knowledge?
And the answer to this question is "No". A big "NO". Listening to songs may lead to an upswing of mood, watching movies may just waste our time, however, reading books can be helpful at times.
So, I've got a good and interesting remedy for this. If you are a technical geek, then you must read the articles posted on sites like C# Corner, Stack Overflow, Code Project, ASP.NET etc. Now, some of you might say, "we do it every day while solving errors". Yes! Everyone does that. But our point is what we really do in our spare time or when we get bored. It is not about solving our own errors. We never spend the time to learn from other’s mistake.
I am not asking you to read similar things that you come across while working, rather I am urging you to read new topics. There is a lot more happening in the entire world (not in all aspects, I am talking about the technology only ). Lots of guys are working on lots of technologies and they encounter many different problems that we have never heard of. Even many of them are working on their own new ideas. By reading about these innovative ideas/ new errors, we get to know many things that we can not even keep count of.
I bet that we will not get bored while we give our precious time to reading these articles. In fact, we cannot get bored. After all, it is human nature to get attracted to every new thing we see for the first time, provided that we have some or a little interest in it. For example, I love programming and being a developer, I will be curious if I see something new. But I won’t get that excited in the same way for political news since that does not interest me.
I can list down the advantages of visiting these sites.
- We get to know many different technological developments.
- We learn new techniques for the task that we were doing in a different way.
- Our mind gets refreshed.
- We get stress free.
- Our free time is well spent.
- After reading, we can continue to work on our regular tasks in a free state of mind.
Conclusion
There is a basic proverb - "Learn from other people’s mistakes". And lots of people are making mistakes each and every second. We just need to learn from those.
mohit munjalPosted Aug 14, 2018, 2:09 AM
I think Sumit is a big time loner that's why he said big NO.
Mahesh ChandPosted Aug 8, 2018, 9:42 AM
First of all, its a good topic. To sustain a long successful non-boring life, one must have a balance. Balance of work, entertainment, friends and family, and so on. It also depends on what you want in your life, how bad you want it, and what are you willing to sacrifice for it. If you want to build a successful businesses, you have to give up fun and friendship time. If you want to enjoy life in early years, you can't go and build a business. This is how life works. You can't have everything. It's a fact :). Once you know your end goal, then more focused you your towards that goal, faster you will achieve it. That's another fact. Interest and motivation are two major points in this discussion. Some people become programmers to get a job while others really like coding and problem solving. The one who likes coding and problem solving end up innovating products, while rest of them work for a company for their whole life. I know 70 years programmers who still prefer to write code. The end goal is to find something you love to do because once you do that. Once you find that, you will have work and fun doing same thing and you will never get board :). Life will be all vacation.
Gajanan ChavhanPosted Aug 8, 2018, 9:08 AM
I am partially agree with you. but Life is not black n white. We should enjoy every color of it. One such example http://time.com/5259602/japanese-forest-bathing/
Aakash MauryaPosted Aug 8, 2018, 9:07 AM
Great Article, but Life is not only about learning new topics everyday. While I am not coding I do watch Movies, Play GTA, long drive with my wife, long useless conversations with someone I don't event know, listen to the songs that I have already heard more than 1000 times, that all makes me ready for the next day. Being a techie, I know what we have to do and you have explained it very well. I am just thinking about the word you have used "Big NO". It should be Big Yes. It helpful for me :-)