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From a high school dropout to one of the top Computer Science programs in Europe

TJ. Podobnik, @dorkamotorka
6 min readAug 26, 2022

In this post, I want to give you a little bit of insight into my behavioral techniques, how I went from almost dropping out of high school to completing my Bachelor's thesis abroad at TU Berlin and becoming eligible to write my Master's thesis at TU Wien in Austria. In short, during high school, I felt discouraged and unmotivated to do anything with my life, but that changed — my mind changed and I polished it over the years to become who I am today. Once you truly take the ride, you understand it’s a never-ending road, the only correct approach to conquer it is to make it your way of living.

How do you explain things that are obvious to you, the habits that are just the way you live? Should others live like that too? I’ll give it a try and you tell me.

Multitasking is hard and it will not be just given to you. You have to learn it and maintain it. But the truth is some things in life will always suffer, something will always have precedence over other things and it’s what I call a triangle of misery. Ideally, you would want to be somewhere in the middle, but as you know that’s not always the case.

Triangle of misery

I must admit I always tended to work more while building the person I am today and sacrificing good times with friends or family, but that’s completely on your…

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TJ. Podobnik, @dorkamotorka
TJ. Podobnik, @dorkamotorka

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