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ghoti_mhic_uait) wrote2015-12-17 10:36 am
ghoti_mhic_uait) wrote2015-12-17 10:36 am
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Learning new skills - getting over the hump.
Sometimes I'm good at this and others, not so much. I think a thing that helps is that my aim in learning a skill is to see whether it makes me happy. So I have to try until I at least understand what I'm doing a little bit, or I don't really know the answer.
To a certain extent that works for physical things. I can try a craft, and I'm fairly certain I will be able to get something at the end, so I just carry on until I do. Or I take a class or follow a course and decide I'll get to the end before I judge how I'm doing. And that usually works well.
Sometimes what I learn is that it doesn't make me happy. That's more or less what I learnt from my time designing the local NCT paper, for example, or the time I tried to learn to draw. I still draw occasionally, but it's not something I care about.
Sometimes what I learn is that my colour crochet looks much better than I expected!
More mental things - I guess knowledge rather than skills? - I have a real difficulty getting over the hump. For example, I stated a coursera course, and it was interesting and fun, but I just didn't have the time to keep up with it. Hopefully one day I'll go back to it.
Or I've been trying for 4 years now to learn to programme well enough to give something back to the free software community who have been so welcoming, socially helpful, and practically too. Colin gave my a task recently but I'm a bit scared to look at it.
To a certain extent that works for physical things. I can try a craft, and I'm fairly certain I will be able to get something at the end, so I just carry on until I do. Or I take a class or follow a course and decide I'll get to the end before I judge how I'm doing. And that usually works well.
Sometimes what I learn is that it doesn't make me happy. That's more or less what I learnt from my time designing the local NCT paper, for example, or the time I tried to learn to draw. I still draw occasionally, but it's not something I care about.
Sometimes what I learn is that my colour crochet looks much better than I expected!
More mental things - I guess knowledge rather than skills? - I have a real difficulty getting over the hump. For example, I stated a coursera course, and it was interesting and fun, but I just didn't have the time to keep up with it. Hopefully one day I'll go back to it.
Or I've been trying for 4 years now to learn to programme well enough to give something back to the free software community who have been so welcoming, socially helpful, and practically too. Colin gave my a task recently but I'm a bit scared to look at it.