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There are so many things that happen when you decide to learn something new. I write down some aspects of it.
An ideal timeline to learn:
7 am - Getup
7-8 am - Regular routine
8- 10 am - Watch video / read / Ask someone to help you ( with bio breaks and uninterrupted )
1015 - 1115 am - Revision on what you just learnt
1115 - 2 pm - Do other things
2 - 4 pm - Practice ( with bio breaks and uninterrupted )
4 - 7 pm - Other things
7 - 730 pm - Learn to present.
730- 8 pm - Learn to write
8-10 pm - Do other things
10-1030pm - Give time to unload what things worked out for you, and what did not work out for you
1030-12 am - Do other things
Mix and match and do your own things and set your own times to get the best from the day.
Do things uninterrupted to get the maximum from the time you allot to things. When the word un-interrupted comes, think about doing that thing solely and not focusing on anything else. Allot time for other things that also need your attention, and acknowledge things that need your attention.
Learn to present: Very important to start to present yourself. See how bad you are and start to improve on your own. Take a topic and set a timer and talk about it for exactly one minute. No one to judge you, just start speaking.
Learn to write: Don't wait for someday to write. See how bad you are and start to improve on your writing. Take any topic and write what you want to for 5 minutes. Read what you wrote for 10 minutes. Read more of what you write and try to improve it on your own. Be your worst critic. Answer these questions: What does the audience know from my writing? Did I give any examples of what did I do? etc.
Revision: Not accumulating, but revising what you learnt is important. Don't pile up knowledge, build upon knowledge.
Unload the day whenever possible: How are you physically and mentally each day, what is happening where are you heading to the things you decided? Re-schedule, re-plan, change your course of action, change priorities, postpone, and prepone things.
About the ideal timeline:
Practice is very essential.
Honouring practice is very important too. You got to do boring things to retain the practice.
Start by focusing on what you can do and buildup momentum from that. Momentum brings in progress.
Doubt solving -
Find the topic where you feel you are weak.
Find a person who can / might be good at it.
Schedule a time to learn from them - it can be a blog, video also online.
How to go for uninterrupted work?
Set do-not-disturb mode on your phone. Put wifi off, and mobile data off.
Uninstall apps that work on your desktop too. Set timers using Freedom chrome extension to cite an example: use this to set limits to apps on Google Chrome. Use this to understand and reduce your time on apps.
For social media like Twitter - post things on your timeline. Reply to your posts only for reducing time spent on Twitter.
Ignore who liked your tweets and who followed you and jump to replies directly - interact with replies and quote tweets - interact with text comments and DMs. - Choose to not give time for things that may not be good for your journey.
To minimize time spent, do not interact with anyone else's posts which is related to time pass or clickbait or unrelated to your journey.
When you begin to start uninterrupted work you will feel bored, and not want to do things, whenever you feel bored - try and see your state of mind by changing topics. Get back to boring topics or resources the next day. Sometimes it is a lack of context or not understanding enough, that does not allow us to learn things. Try different approaches and find your tune.
Give time to detach if necessary from a hectic day - acknowledge things, listen to music, play games, meditate, gym, exercise, do yoga, swim, sport, walk anything possible.
Form your own set of people from time to time: Share your interests, and build small things together.
Have someone to talk to when you feel down:
- Emotion partner
For physical health:
Consult a doctor
Follow up with medicines
Take rest and food on time.
Recover to perform optimally.
What to do when you are distracted?
Go for a walk
Talk to someone
Meditate / Jog / Exercise
Are you hungry or thirsty?
Write things down
Nobody interacting with you?
Find topics and people to interact with and start engaging with them. No need to interact with "5 famous people" only.
If you want to join any group or connect with someone, add value to the interaction - don't try to impress - be natural - not judging - open-minded and willing to add value.
Open to asking for help! Is anyone troubling you, bullying you, mocking you, putting you down publicly and consistently making you feel bad?
Don't keep feeling bad, express it to the people concerned.
Feel someone is moving too fast?
Observe where are you going slow.
It is important not to learn fast but to know better.
If you are stuck on some topics ask for any tips to improve your understanding of that topic.
Practice and understanding in your way and not more resources is generally the remedy to such a situation.
Life has interruptions, what do you do then?
Acknowledge interruptions have come
Inform the team / place of how it is affecting you
Speak to your friends and family for emotional support if needed
Take action - for health chart a plan to recover - estimate a timeline to get better.
Re-chart plan to study at your own pace.
Your code can be worse than others, your design can be worse than others.
Everything, when you start, can we worse than others. Not everyone may have good design sense and some skills may not be natural to you but others. Understand some people are naturally good at something, they have worked hard at times also to improve on some things.
Important is to take inspiration to improve and be open to being better. Take feedback on what's not right and how to do better. Be focused on getting better, take good criticism and work on it, if it is going to make you better.
Lack of focus - drifting away from what you started?
Understand what is happening?
What's not working out?
Where are you heading to?
What resources/study materials can add value to improve focus or study
Knowing all of these, fix a schedule to do something possible. Remember to have progress over perfection. If you learn 10-20-30-50...100 things well, you will be capable enough of taking up some jobs.
Do you feel you are learning slow, it is taking too much time to understand things?
In that case, don't aim to read more resources but focus on taking one good source and read it and revise it. What you do not understand, any word or line or anything - read more about it. If you lack understanding, improve your understanding - you need not feel one source is good to learn from. You should learn about topics you feel weak about. Seek official documents so that you don't get incomplete or misleading information.
Practice what you learnt and do not try to compete to complete the syllabus. Focus on better learning whenever possible.
Sit with your errors for sometime. Read other's code who are better than you, take as a reference and change some things to know how things work and learn from your peer's examples.
FIND YOUR OWN WAY OUT.
Find your own schedule, own your own problems and try to solve them.
Don’t stick to general frameworks if that is not suitable for you.
Find your way, customize it to make it work for you and get started.