SELF-LEARNING

It’s Time to Change Your Lifestyle

Be an effective self-learner and master something new.

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At work, whenever I got approval to initiate a new project that requires skills that I haven’t learned, I knew that I had to change my lifestyle immediately.

Why? That’s because I’m already busy enough at work. Although the project is work-related, I hardly have any “free time” to sit down and watch online tutorials to learn something new.

In addition, allocating one to two hours per day outside office hours is just not fast enough. This is because I intentionally gave myself a tight deadline for project-based self-learning to create a sense of urgency that would force me to master something quickly.

Therefore, this method of self-learning is not for habit building. It’s not something that you should do daily over a long period of time. The main idea here is to create more time and space for yourself. Then, you will be able to channel all your attention and energy to complete your project-based self-learning as fast as possible.

Be Prepared to Spend Long Hours.

Here’s why you need to expect long and continuous hours of commitment:

1. You can’t skip any relevant topics…