Anyone else find in extremely difficult to learn? I just can’t pinpoint the best process for me.
Do I take notes and sacrifice time, or do I skip notes and learn more but risk not capturing my understanding for when I forget?
Do I follow tutorials to gain familiarity with new concepts and approaches, or do I take an idea and build it out but accept the concepts used are primitive or flawed?
There’re pros and cons to each side which makes it difficult to choose. It ****** gifts aneurysms just tinkering over it.
Typically in uni:
- I’d panic, procrastinate, then panic many more times
- I’d come up with a plan to cover all topics
- I’d go library to make notes on all topics
- Then realise I don’t have enough time to finish all my notes and get to a breaking point where I ask myself, what do I really need to pass?
- The answer was: practice and make flashcards of my weak areas
- So, I’d cram a butt load of practice, make flash cards, answer loads of those flash cards
- Take the exam and never ever look at my notes again
So, what I’m learning from that is notetaking is actually useless and was an emotional reaction to all my panic. What made the biggest difference was practice and flash cards on weak areas.
We’re in a day and age where we really don’t need notes. There’re so many amazing resources out there. So, unless we’re contributing to these resources, why bother making notes? It’s literally a search away. And for areas we’re stuck on, sure, we can make notes on them to capture our understanding or practice answering it enough so that it’s burnt into our skulls.
So, my process of learning is failing then iterating to achieve success. It’s in those iterations I flex my creative muscles to get to the solution.
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