From: keith tokash (ktokash@hotmail.com)
Date: Fri Jun 13 2008 - 20:31:46 ART
So I test this upcoming Thursday. My manager has been gracious enough to
allow me to spend the final two weeks "working from home". So all day, every
day, I study. Things are going rocky, with daily beatings making me feel like
the unwanted result of a drunken coupling, but I'm improving. However I'm
inclined to wonder at what point we humans lose the ability to gain anything
by studying further, and even start to harm ourselves.
I used to work out a lot (you know, in the pre-CCIE life) and there is a point
where you overtrain your body and it starts to break down. If you overtrain
one week, you'll probably be ok that week, but the next week you'll just feel
tired all the time and not know why. If you're coming up on a competition,
you generally spend 4-7 days beforehand doing light training to allow your
body to recover. Just break a sweat.
Does anyone know how long the cerebral recovery time is? I don't think it's
4-7 days, but in the last 3 days I've done 3x labs from IE Volume 3, plus a
Cisco mock lab, and my head feels like there's a donkey standing on it. At
the same time, if there's a time to really push it out and get tough, it's
now. I just don't want to overtrain and have it backfire, when I could be
drinking a Newcastle in the sun and have a better result. Oh, and does Cisco
have sound effects for its mock lab? As I clicked on the link to see my
results I could have sworn I heard my computer laughing at me.
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