I think I engaged with this sprint in a way that allowed me to effectively tackle some concepts that were
entirely new to me without getting too concerned with gaining complete mastery of them. Instead I tried to
get a good enough understanding of the UI design concepts I was being taught to begin my own redesign and
looked for additional resources when I thought it would help.
Being reminded of this concept also helped when I ran into problems with how my site was presenting on
mobile devices. I discovered that my site would appear one way when shown in a browser at a mobile width
but would appear differently when I actually viewed it on a mobile device. Instead of being focused on how
my site looked and what I might do to improve it, I referred back to what I had been taught about the browser
developer tools, the DOM & CSS structure. Using those I was able to see that styling appeared to be applied
correctly to my site and eventually discovered that I was simply missing a meta tag in the header of my site
to specify how it would be rendered on mobile devices. This whole process was a great learning experience
and I feel like I have a much better understanding of CSS having gone through it.
Before reading this chapter of the book I had thought meditation was a very useful but also very enjoyable exercise to engage with. I had found it to be a really great way to regulate stress and negative emotions but I hadn't really thought of it as having produced positivity in and of itself. Reading the evidence presented in the book to back this up was really encouraging and made me determined to make meditation an even greater priority in my life. The suggestion that meditation can also have lasting physical effects on your body is also fascinating, it reminded me of some other articles I've read on the enteric nervous system and shows how surprising the connections between the brain and the body can be.