Has helped digest conscious and subconscious thoughts, occurrences throughout my day, and emotions. My family and friends have mentioned a noticeable change in my personality as being much more relaxed and insightful no matter the circumstance. That’s without them knowing I’ve been meditating consistently for the past year.
All things considered I now wish I'd done that immediately as soon as I was old enough, and never got into programming as a career. I'd almost say I wish I'd never learned to program, except being able to write your own programs for your own use (or fix/improve existing free software that you use heavily) is pretty nice.
The money I've made in those ~15 years sure is nice, but it doesn't really come close to making up for wasting the best years of my life.
And yes, meditation. Meditation is key. You've got to take hold of yourself (your mind).
Do you apply everything you learn regularly or something? I like learning new things (by watching nature docs or the like) but it feels like I am unable to recall what I learned a few weeks to a month down the road.
I still agree that learning something new every day is ideal, but it seems it'd make sense to carefully structure that to focus on things you might reasonably make use of.