You finish work, close your laptop, and tell yourself you’ll spend an hour learning something new. But then the evening arrives, you’re tired and have other things to do. Maybe you want to exercise, cook dinner, or simply do nothing and recover from your day. The learning session gets postponed and you tell yourself “I’ll…
If you’ve ever tried to learn a new skill while working full time, you’ve probably encountered the same frustrating problem; You have enough time to start learning something but not enough focus to make any meaningful progress. Then after work you sit down to begin learning something new. You open a browser and think about…
For anyone looking to self-study while balancing work and family life, most self-study advice wrongly assumes that learning is your main priority with an abundance of time to quickly get through the learning material. Studying for two hours every day while taking extensive notes and completing courses as quickly as possible sounds reasonable in theory…
Most people leave school thinking learning is supposed to look a certain way. That they read the given text carefully, they highlight all important points, and then repeatedly look at those points until the information makes it’s place in your brain. The problem is that much of this feels productive without producing strong long-term retention.…
If you work full time and still want to keep learning, you’ve probably run into the same problem: Most advice about learning assumes you have unlimited time, energy, and focus. That you can study for several hours every day, build up complex learning systems and still wake up at 5am to ”grind”. That might work…