Motivation

["Josh" <jlamb03@elitemail.org>]

Hello all,

I am a 16 year old enthusiast and since right now is summer break for me
I have been trying to hit the books.  I am working on "Linux power
tools" as well as some books on Debian/GNU.  I have 7 distros (Knoppix,
Slackware, Red Hat, Debian, Suse, Slack, Telemetry box) and have
successfully installed every one and played with the desktop
environments, setting up SAMBA, trying to compile .tar.gz files and just
messing around with stuff like the MOTD, Emacs, and vim.  However, I am
still a teenager so I have been slacking off and not getting near as
much done as I have planned. My question is: Since you are admins and
deal with reading not only the man pages but tons of other texts every
day, how do you motivate yourself to sit down and just read it all, even
when reading for hours and sometimes going through dozens of code
examples ??  Thanks for answering some of the previous questions I have
posted on this board and I also must thank the whole open source
community for being there, this whole world has been so enlightening for
me.  To break out of the Windows/MAC world and experience the breath of
fresh air and interoperability the linux/open source world brings is
such an enlightening experience.

Thanks,
Josh