How I approach learning

I’ll describe the mindset and show you how it can be applied to just about anything in life, with examples.

It boils down to two things:

• How hard could it possibly be? Probably easier than it was for someone to teach it. Really. It’s obviously doable.
• One way or another, I will learn this.

That’s 90% of it. The other bits are small things like: do a scan through the content first to get a “Table of content” overview, read the intro/conclusion/summary, etc.

Example: Learning basic electronics.

Thought processes:
1. Electricity is only TWO things. Positive and negative. 1′s and 0′s. On or off.
2. Look, a battery has only two ends. That’s only two possibilities. How hard can it be to learn two things?
3. It’s just a bunch of wires moving energy around
4. I got this.

Example: Learning programming

Thought processes:
1. If I want something to do something, I just say what I want in it’s weird native language. Cool I’ll just look that up.
2. It must be pretty objective because computers are dumb, they need to be instructed explicitly. Language must be primitive.
3. If this happens, then I want to do that. Er wait, but if that happens, let’s do this instead. Easy peasy.
4. I got this.

Find a way or make one. There are arrays of good excuses to not succeed – just ask yourself at the end, “Did I succeed?” It’s pretty black and white.

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