There is such a thing as trying to learn too much all at once–Give yourself hard limits.

Ben Owens
1 min readNov 14, 2022

I’m a big proponent of the belief that you should always be learning.

In life, always be learning.

In your job, always be learning.

In your hobbies, always be learning.

If you’re not learning, you’re idling, which isn’t going to get you anywhere.

But if you’re trying to learn everything, all at once, you won’t.

There’s a reason we didn’t take 32 classes a day in school: focus is a zero sum game, as is retention. It’s easy to forget that we are human and our abilities have limits (shit, many of us refuse to admit these limits even exist until we’re crippling under the weight of them).

You can’t give 100% to everything, all at once.

Since 2019, I’ve learned more than I could list about the plant I’d consumed for a decade prior. I’ve learned how to grow from seed and clone, how to take clones and keep moms, how to harvest for flower and extracts, how to make extracts, and countless lessons in between. But that didn’t all happen in the first 90 days of planting a seed.

You have to set limits to your efforts if you want to progress.

You can’t learn calculus until you’ve learned to add and subtract, multiply and divide. And attempting to do so will only lead to frustration and fall-off.

Learning is a zero-sum game; the more you limit your focus, the better that focus will be, and the easier the learning process.

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Ben Owens
Ben Owens

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