You play different when you are keeping score.

The last week has been hectic, and I have slipped a little bit, I did keep writing but I found it much easier to reach for my pen and notebook than to write on the blog. However, I still feel like I am cheating on my New Year's resolution so I wanted to get back on it. So this week - I want to get back on it and make time to put the words from the various scraps of paper back onto the web (also this way I can move and refine what I wrote on paper to the big pages).

The first of which was a piece I wrote about keeping score: 

You play differently when you are keeping score. I used to hate this saying because it never offered a direction. You don't necessarily play better when you are keeping score. Usually games are also more fun when you're not. Over the last week of my own writing (aka slacking), I do realize however that not posting my thoughts in a way was not keeping score. My most productive times in any endeavour happened when I had a visual scoreboard. What is even more effective is having a scoreboard focused on meta-skills, like focused on thing I can do everyday or in the moment. As a Ph.D student , a scoreboard tracking the number of publications who get isn't gonna be that effective at keeping you on task- but I scoreboard on how much you wrote everyday will be. Spoiler alert is that my most effective scoreboards were ones focused on the pomodoro method. 


While it was fun to write on papers and when my laptop ran out of battery - it did feel different. So anyways, I am coming back online.