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Specializing

You may have recalled that I wrote about whether to specialize or broaden your knowledge.
http://dinocajic.blogspot.com/2015/08/broadening-your-overall-knowledge-or.html

Although I'm still a believer in broadening your knowledge, I think I've finally come to the conclusion to specialize 80% and broaden about 20%.

Why?
It hit me the other day when I started researching "Positive News" articles. To date, I've read (and recorded) over 6,000 articles: most are negative by nature or they simply make you want to rip your hair out (i.e. any news related to Donald Trump). However, these seem to dominate. I try to skip over them as much as I can but it takes me roughly 30 minutes every day to just figure out what I'm going to read. Seems like a waste of time and one can't help but read the titles of articles as one is browsing for articles to read.

So, I've come to terms with substituting news articles (most of them anyway) with tutorials or industry related articles (Computer Programming in general).

The purpose of this: I strongly believe that a person needs to devote some time (6 months to a year) to consciously figure out what stresses him/her out, and slowly eradicate that stress from one's life or understand that the situation might not be as stressful as one initially thought.

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