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As said in the comments, I think I'm gonna ask the questions separately, so this question doesn't need an answer :p, except if you think you have a general advice.

You start building a house by making plans, then building the structure, and finally "filling" it. Doing it in the other order results in an organization mess, stress, loss of time, weak points because some parts of the "fundamentals" were made, fixed, changed after other things depending on it were put on it. A web browser can't work correctly if not provided the necessary dependencies, like use of network... Sometimes, maintainance is harder than doing something again from scratch and can have worse results. It's also better when you do it right for the beginning.

I thing these statements can apply for everything as well as human beings. For example, learning personal productivity before finishing school is useful to do successful studies, otherwise we can end up with no job in one of the worst cases. I know life is not perfectly planned and that we have to take opportunities as they pass by, but it's better to be able to choose if we're given the possibility to, and today with Internet, for example, we have access to many resources. Also, thinking too much about a planning as complex as life can end up in headaches, so it's sometimes better to start doing something, whatever, acting instead of thinking forever.

I'm asking for priorities so I can do things in the right order when possible. I started to learn about personal productivity a bit late and school didn't provide any learning process af far as I remember. For a programmer, it's better to start learning the best designed languages such as Haskell than to go straight into imperative programming. When you start something, you don't exactly know if you're starting from the right place with the right pre-requisites.

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IMO this question is to broad to have a reasonable answer as posed. – Dave Newton Jun 12 '12 at 22:12
Agreed. L01man, there are several good questions buried here, try to separate them out and then post them individually. (It's totally okay - encouraged, even - to post more than one question.) – Belisama Jun 12 '12 at 23:44
What are your desired goals? Do you want to make a video game, write a book, be a politician, all three, neither? Learn all human languages or just a subset? You can't expect us to provide all possible optimal life paths here. (Not that I'm sure we can even provide any...) – weronika Jun 13 '12 at 6:09
OK, I'll ask them separately. Is it good if I ask the following ones in individual questions: "What musical instrument to start with?", "What martial art to start with?", ...? – L01man Jun 13 '12 at 7:17
@L01man IMO most likely not--it's a completely open-ended question. There's no single instrument anyone "should" start with. Start with the instrument, martial art, etc. you want to learn the most--we have only limited time on this planet. – Dave Newton Jun 13 '12 at 10:09
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The question is board however I think the base question is where to begin. And like you used the house analogy. All house building begins with a good set of blueprints. A overall detailed plan of how to build the house. Once you have a good blueprint of what your house is going to be you will know what to do.

However be prepared to modify your existing blueprint if needed. But above all once you have the blueprint, see it all the way to the end.

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"Where to begin?" would be the question. I agree you have to always move towards your "blueprint" and not forget it and live without realizing it. – L01man Jun 13 '12 at 16:08

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