Let's consider your personal experience. Once, you were a very small child just beginning to explore the world. Growing older, you were seated at a school desk, and after finishing school, the same routine continued in university, with the only difference being that teachers found you less interesting, almost on your own. Entering the workforce and facing the real world, you found yourself alone, and this time, in my opinion, is most similar to your age around... let's say, a sparrow.
Of course, you're no longer a blank slate, but this is the time of opportunities when you can try and experiment with various aspects of your life.
Perhaps it's an even more crucial time, as being a child limits your possibilities and subjects you to circumstances entirely. Being young but already adult, you control your emotions, assess situations, and make decisions. You might have some difficulties with this until around the age of 25, but that's roughly how it looks.
Continuing to draw parallels between you as an adult and a very young child... During this time, your eyes are bright, you absorb everything that interests you like a sponge. Some things take 5 seconds, something like chewing gum might take a day, and a Lego set can captivate you for 3-4 days (this is actually a real statistic).
It's your personal experience, even a brief exposure to a piece of information, that leaves a small hook in your brain, allowing you to use it at the right time.
How to approach
And now you have a task, for example, to study a chapter of a book, or you want to start working with 3D. In the first case, you take the book, in the second, you can start with a beginner's tutorial on YouTube. In both cases, you are offered a strict sequence of actions, following which you will learn something.
However, I suggest doing the following. If it's a book, even if you have no idea what it's about or you know but very vaguely, spend some time looking through different pages of the book and reading any text that catches your eye. Make notes during the process. Read small chunks, enough for you to form some idea of what you've read. A couple of paragraphs may be sufficient.
The order in which you open the book is not important; in fact, it might be better to be more random. This way, you might look straight into the end of the book and find out how it concludes.
If it's a skill like working with 3D, take an online course and browse through various lessons in a similarly random order, trying to understand what you see, make a note, and continue.
This process should take at least half an hour. It depends on the volume you want to cover. If it's a multi-day task, it might be worth breaking this familiarization process into several parts. For the initial exposure, you can go through all the material in about an hour. Then, using the same method (another half hour), focus on the first significant chunk, which presumably would take about five hours to fully grasp.
This way, you're creating a mental map that may seem nonsensical at first glance, but when you systematically progress through the learning course, these hooks magically resurface in your memory. The more unclear and even incorrect theories you've built for each of these hooks, the more interesting it will be for your mind to solve these puzzles.
There's an "aha" moment when what you expected turns out to be different in reality. A strong reaction to what's happening is precisely what makes you better internalize information.
Project Work
Another excellent example is working on a project in the field you want to study. Now, with YouTube in your arsenal, you can practically learn any profession by simply starting to work in that field.
Come up with a project goal, outline the desired result. Perhaps, don't set it too high, as your task is to go through the complete process from start to finish. If you don't do this, there's a high chance you won't continue with it.
During the work, every time you encounter a problem, search for its solution online.
In fact, this is how the process of any professional looks, even one with experience. It's impossible to know everything when the task is complex and all-encompassing.
In Conclusion
In the end, your life journey is the greatest project of your life. You come across information, and if it interests you, you allow it to enter your life and take up space.
I hope I've helped you in some way. See you in the next article,
Dmitry.
Of course, you're no longer a blank slate, but this is the time of opportunities when you can try and experiment with various aspects of your life.
Perhaps it's an even more crucial time, as being a child limits your possibilities and subjects you to circumstances entirely. Being young but already adult, you control your emotions, assess situations, and make decisions. You might have some difficulties with this until around the age of 25, but that's roughly how it looks.
Continuing to draw parallels between you as an adult and a very young child... During this time, your eyes are bright, you absorb everything that interests you like a sponge. Some things take 5 seconds, something like chewing gum might take a day, and a Lego set can captivate you for 3-4 days (this is actually a real statistic).
It's your personal experience, even a brief exposure to a piece of information, that leaves a small hook in your brain, allowing you to use it at the right time.
How to approach
And now you have a task, for example, to study a chapter of a book, or you want to start working with 3D. In the first case, you take the book, in the second, you can start with a beginner's tutorial on YouTube. In both cases, you are offered a strict sequence of actions, following which you will learn something.
However, I suggest doing the following. If it's a book, even if you have no idea what it's about or you know but very vaguely, spend some time looking through different pages of the book and reading any text that catches your eye. Make notes during the process. Read small chunks, enough for you to form some idea of what you've read. A couple of paragraphs may be sufficient.
The order in which you open the book is not important; in fact, it might be better to be more random. This way, you might look straight into the end of the book and find out how it concludes.
If it's a skill like working with 3D, take an online course and browse through various lessons in a similarly random order, trying to understand what you see, make a note, and continue.
This process should take at least half an hour. It depends on the volume you want to cover. If it's a multi-day task, it might be worth breaking this familiarization process into several parts. For the initial exposure, you can go through all the material in about an hour. Then, using the same method (another half hour), focus on the first significant chunk, which presumably would take about five hours to fully grasp.
This way, you're creating a mental map that may seem nonsensical at first glance, but when you systematically progress through the learning course, these hooks magically resurface in your memory. The more unclear and even incorrect theories you've built for each of these hooks, the more interesting it will be for your mind to solve these puzzles.
There's an "aha" moment when what you expected turns out to be different in reality. A strong reaction to what's happening is precisely what makes you better internalize information.
Project Work
Another excellent example is working on a project in the field you want to study. Now, with YouTube in your arsenal, you can practically learn any profession by simply starting to work in that field.
Come up with a project goal, outline the desired result. Perhaps, don't set it too high, as your task is to go through the complete process from start to finish. If you don't do this, there's a high chance you won't continue with it.
During the work, every time you encounter a problem, search for its solution online.
In fact, this is how the process of any professional looks, even one with experience. It's impossible to know everything when the task is complex and all-encompassing.
In Conclusion
In the end, your life journey is the greatest project of your life. You come across information, and if it interests you, you allow it to enter your life and take up space.
I hope I've helped you in some way. See you in the next article,
Dmitry.
