ElizabethShermet

Balance is just searching for balance along the way.

There is no such thing as an ideal schedule, perfect regularity, or continuous performance.

My biggest mistake? Expecting to find a single solution and getting frustrated when I fail.

Also, that desire to get everything right now, regardless of the effort it takes.

The point is, it’s quite hopeless to rely on an optimal single solution, just as it’s hopeless to believe you’d do the same stuff every single day. Nope.

Lately, I’ve been working on my ideal schedule: how to combine full-time work, intense studies, yoga classes, blogging, and some rest.

Additionally, there’s the immigration background—legal paperwork, running a home by myself, family far away, and trying to build a social circle from scratch.

The list is infinite. My capacity is limited.

So, I screwed it up. Not because of the list, but because of my desire for «perfect» performance, which is just not possible.

I won’t share exactly how I failed, but trust me, it was a spectacular failure.

I had every minute scheduled from wake-up to bedtime.

However, I haven’t counted one thing—well, a few things—the emotional impact, the physical impact, and just being tired of myself.

Good news! I fixed it: just ignore those failures and keep going, pretending the crash never happened. Gone. Forgotten.

In ML, we work with huge datasets where we have enormous amounts of records. When we classify those data, we always have outliers.

Outliers are the records that are impossible or pointless to use while training models or making decisions. In data science, we simply ignore them so they don’t skew the whole picture.

In real data, the amount of outliers can be 100s of records, and this is totally fine. So what if I can take my failures as outliers? Like a system bug, just an accident.

You haven’t changed because of a few things that you’ve done. You just did something which doesn’t belong to the overall system—this is not the end of the world.

All that to say, the point of a permanent solution is the search for the one based on circumstances or ignoring them if they are just outliers.

This is the balance, I believe.
Cheers.