Technique for learning new things

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

We all need to constantly learn something new. For study, work, personal development. But not everyone is easy to learn new things. Read on for a technique to help you learn new things.

1. Love it

At the very beginning of the journey, you need to understand that if you hate the subject of study, if you do not like it, then nothing will work. Anyone who loves the object will be a good hundred steps ahead of you.

I will not tell you how to love the subject of study. Because each of you is a special person and the subject of study is different for everyone. You need to find your own approaches that are right for you.

2. Read about it

For a good study of the subject, you need to choose the right literature. Yes, everyone likes to say that practice is the most important thing. But a good theory is a solid and reliable foundation for your future building.

Consult with knowledgeable people, ask around on various specialized sites and forums, ask experts for advice. Pick the right materials - and go ahead, build your own foundation.

3. Try this

If you want to be a writer, you need to write. If you want to be a programmer, you need to write code. If you want to become a businessman, you need to start your own business.

Yes, at the very beginning you will be bad or not at all. This is fine. First, it’s not quality that matters, but quantity. The secret to happiness is not knowing how to be big. The secret to happiness is knowing how to grow. Start small and don't stop.

4. Find a teacher

Yes, you can learn everything yourself. After all, we live in the era of online education, when you can get many specialties without leaving your home. But believe me, with a good mentor everything will happen many times faster.

Find someone who is cooler than you in the subject of study. Not necessarily for money (although it is more productive), there are many people who are willing to share their knowledge for free. Collect your questions and ask your mentor a couple of times a week, ask them to give you homework and point out your mistakes.

5. Study history. Explore the Present

If you want to learn how to become a truly great writer / programmer / businessman, you need to study history.

For example, a programmer should study a machine language, learn how operating systems and old programming languages were created, read a couple of biographies of great programmers.

The writer needs to read the great books of the past. Such books that have stood the test of time and have not lost their greatness. You have to read famous critics to see and understand what you missed.

A businessman should study the biographies of Rockefeller, Carnegie, the history of the creation of Apple, Google, Samsung and other large and successful companies. And necessarily - stories about how businessmen and firms behaved during crises.

Read about the people and things that have turned the world upside down or made it a little better. Write down the most important things in a notebook or Evernote. Reread your notes.

6. Start simple

Before starting his own airline, Richard Branson bred parrots, grew trees, published a magazine and much more. It is unlikely that he would have been able to launch his own airline without business experience. And now we know him precisely as the owner of a very good airline.

Mark Zuckerberg didn't start with Facebook. Bill Gates isn't on Windows, and Erica Leonard didn't write 50 Shades of Gray first. Almost all successful people start with simple projects.

Start simple. Then you will have more self-confidence in the future.

7. Study what you have done

After enough time has passed, return to your very first works. Reread or revise them. Find mistakes, fix them. Try to find a better solution than you accepted then. Why not learn from the mistakes you've already made? Ask yourself the question, "How can I improve my work?" Just don't get lost in perfectionism.

8. You are the arithmetic mean of the people around you

Try to pay attention to successful people and who they hang out with or hang out with. You will notice that most successful people are brewed in a circle of their own kind.

They say that if you add up the salaries of your five closest acquaintances and friends, and then divide the amount by 5, you will get an approximate amount of your salary. Do you see where I am leading? You need to grow, which means you need to choose a company that suits you. I'm not saying that you need to be arrogant, but try to communicate with those who are smarter than you. Then you have to compete and get better.

9. Do this every day

All novice programmers are advised to write code on a daily basis. At least a dozen lines of code, but every day, without gaps. As long as you devote a large amount of time to the subject, you improve and improve your knowledge. As soon as you missed a day, another, the third - that's all, you need to catch up, return to the level that you had on the last day of your classes.

10. Find your cunning plan

The student eventually becomes a master. If you have not gone astray. And at some point he becomes smarter than his teacher. Exceeds him. This is the purpose of learning something.

Now it is your turn to teach, instruct and change the world.