You may not need to buy this course?
Buying a course make your feel that you made a real commitment to learn something.
Watching the videos also make you feel you are making progress.
The problem start happening when you try to apply everything that you “learned” in a side project, or real life.
Usually what happens is that things are not so easy as it sounds in a video lesson, you try to setup Webpack and get weird error that didn’t show in the video.
Reality has many more details that you can see in video.
All courses are about happy case. The happy case is when everything goes well.
The problem is that not everything goes well at first in real life. As your computer could be a bit difference. The version of the package you are working on is different.
So if courses are not the best way to learn something, what is the best one?
Better ways to learn something
Learning and cognitive process has being studied many and many years, and we still do not an answer of how we learn.
One book that has many insights about it is Make it Stick.
You learn better if you connect new concepts to old ones that you know already.
You learn more practicing
- Make it stickRead multiple books in parallel to make them stick more Apply concepts in real life to make them stick Exercise/tests can help you Tests yourself knowledge to stop forgetting To…
- Abstract NodeYou can model knowledge as a graph of nodes of concepts/ideas When you abstract 2 or more ideas in a more general concept finding the edges among those nodes This will make show…
- AtomWe can use atom to describe something that is minimal and indivisible We can have an atom of state like redux recoiljs We can have an atom of thought as Roam and Zettelkästen uses…
- Being wrongYou can be wrong in many situations Make sure to always revalidate your ideas on new information like Bayesian approach P(A I): your probability of something should changed based…
- Bidirectional note takingCreate a note for the source (book) Create a note for each idea/concept of the source For instance, a note for Make it Stick A note for spaced learning A note for interview…
- Bleeding edgeedge Bleeding edge is the state of art of something It is the new technology When you focus on bleeding edge (new), you have an advantage as everybody start in a clean slate. You…
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