# LMD Async Tutoring **URL:** https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/lmd-async-tutoring/1933 **Category:** Tutoring **Created:** [April 23, 2024, 12:05am UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/lmd-async-tutoring/1933 "2024-04-23T00:05:39Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 1038
### Author: ![LMD](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/user_avatar/discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/lmd/32/3213_2.png) [@LMD](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/u/LMD) #### Post date: [July 31, 2025, 6:11am UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/lmd-async-tutoring/1933/1038 "2025-07-31T06:11:23Z")
I feel like I’m at a crossroads today. I haven’t done any philosophy for the last 3 weeks. Looking at my calendar, I have been busy, and I did get sick for almost a week. But I also felt tired and like I needed to take some time off philosophy. I’m at a point where I need to make a decision whether to continue tutoring into the next month, or whether I take a longer break. I’ve been avoidant and left this decision to the last minute, which is probably bad, because I missed an opportunity for some feedback. Some things I think about regarding this decision: I think about the money that I would save, but then I think about the fact that I don’t have a much better plan for what to use that money for anyway. It would take some financial pressure off, but I can afford it currently. I worry that if I stop tutoring, I will stop doing philosophy for a while, and that I might find it hard or find myself resistant to getting back into it. I don’t like the idea of that, but just making myself do tutoring doesn’t seem like a good solution to that problem. But I don’t have to stop doing philosophy if I stop tutoring. I think about what Elliot said here in Eternity’s thread: > [@Eternity Async Tutoring](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/eternity-async-tutoring/1932/984): > > Overall, I suspect that you aren’t doing it because you aren’t very persuaded because you haven’t thought it through in detail. You could use more knowledge about it and don’t actually know enough yet to reach conclusions. This idea of understanding things in more detail before expecting to be motivated to do them may be useful for @LMD too. I’ve thought about this numerous times since reading it. It makes sense that understanding things is important to being motivated to do them. I wonder if this is part of my issue with philosophy. That I don’t know enough about what it can do for me and what I can achieve. I remember getting motivated to learn grammar after I saw Elliot’s Pinker Paragraph grammar analysis video. I had no idea you could break down what people had written in that way and analyse it. It seemed really cool and helpful. And now I feel like I’ve learned some cool grammar stuff and I can use it somewhat. Like I often find myself thinking of the grammar of things I’m saying and reading. I guess I don’t know what might be next for me in philosophy. I think if I could learn more about what to work on, that would be motivating. I read the article [Curiosity – Learning Philosophy and Tutoring](https://curi.us/2594-learning-philosophy-and-tutoring) > I can give some reasons that philosophical goals are appealing and some candidate goals, which people may find persuasive or not. I can talk about what I like about philosophy. Maybe we could talk about what you like about philosophy? Some candidate goals? Would a tutoring project about investigating what’s to like about philosophy be plausible? I thought I’d do pro con lists for both my options. (Cool how these tables rendered perfectly after copy/pasting from Obsidian): # Stop Tutoring Pro/Con list: | Pro | Con | | --- | --- | | Less time pressure to do philosophy because I’m concerned about getting value for money | No longer receive special philosophy help and guidance | | One less thing to do (?) | Will cost more to start tutoring back up again after break, rather than continuing on. | | Perhaps I don’t like it and should have different goals (?) | Lowered self-esteem from feeling like I’ve given up or something (?) | | I don’t waste money on something that perhaps I shouldn’t be doing right now. Like maybe I should work on doing philosophy myself and motivating myself and finding goals myself, and then get expert help once I’m better at managing the interest myself (?) | | # Continue Tutoring Pro/Con list: | Pro | Con | | --- | --- | | Can hopefully continue to learn | might be avoidant due to conflicts and consequently not get enough value out of it | | Can perhaps learn more about my problems | have less time for other goals | | Might find my problems are simpler than I think and I find something fun to work on in short order | | | Maybe it’s fine and I just feel bad/guilt because I’ve been away from it for a little while (?) | | | Increased self-esteem from trying instead of giving up | | I’m feeling like of the two options, continuing feels better to me. I need to actually see myself try and be more active with philosophy though. The potential downsides (that I can see) for continuing seem not as bad as the potential downsides of stopping. Moving forward with tutoring, what projects could I work on that sound fun? - Reading through something and posting about my understanding and getting feedback? I feel like reading through Goldratt could be cool. Like maybe The Choice like you did with Max. - Learning/practising evaporating clouds? (I have the links already) --- _[View the full topic](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/lmd-async-tutoring/1933)._