steps 1-6 : Do these once
Step1 : Get the big picture.
To complete this step, do some basic research on the topic you want to learn about. Remember, the goal isn't to actually learn the topic here, but to just get a big picture of what it's about and how big it is.
Step2 : Determine scope
Now that you have at least somewhat of an idea of what your topic is and how big it is, it's time to narrow down your focus to determine what exactly you want to learn.
You might be tempted to make your scope bigger and less focused, because you want to learn about different subtopics in your topic area, but resist the temptation and try to be as focused as possible.
You can learn only one thing at a time. You can always come back later and learn about other subtopics that branch off of your original topic, but for now, pick one narrowly focused thing and go with it.
One last note about this step: Use your time frame to help you determine the scope. Scope your topic down to the appropriate size that fits your overall reason for learning and fits into the time frame that's available to you.
Step3 : Define success
Before starting any great endeavor it's very important to define success.
without knowing what success looks like, it's both difficult to aim and to know when you've actually hit the target.
Before you try to learn anything you should have a clear picture in your mind of what success will look like.
When you know what your target is, you can more easily work backwards from the goal to determine the steps you need to take to get there.
Step4 : Find resources.
One of the best ways to do this is to jump on your computer and start searching for your topic. I usually start my searches with Amazon to see how many books I can find and then I'll search on Google to see if I can find videos, blog articles, podcast, or other content that would useful to me.
Don't worry about quality at this point. This is similar to a brain storming step. Later on you'll filter your resources and select the best ones, but for now you want to get as many different resources as possible.
Step5: Create a learning plan.
A good way to create your learning plan is to create your learning plan is to see how others are teaching the subject you want to learn about.
Think of it as an outline for a book you'd write on the subject. In fact, your learning path will probably be very similar to the table of contents of a book when you've done.
Step6: Filter resources.
It's important to narrow down your resources to a smaller list of the best ones to help you achieve your goals.
For this step, go through all the resources you've gathered in step 4 and figure out which ones have content that will help you to best cover the content in your learning plan. Also take a look at a reviews and try to determine which resources are of the highest quality. I usually will look at the Amazon reviews for the books I'm considering purchasing and narrow it down to the best one or two books that I think will provide me the best bang for my buck.
Once you've completed this step, You're ready to move on to the first module of your learning plan. You'll repeat steps 7-10 for each learning plan module until you've made it to your destination.
Pick a subject you want to learn about and actually go through the first six steps.
Step 7-10 : Repeat these.
Step7 : Learn enough to get started
the key to this step is not go too far. It's easy to get carried away and start consuming all the resources you have on the module you're trying to learn, but you'll find the most success if you can avoid that temptation.
Instead, focus on learning the minimal amount you'll need to get started and to be able to experiment on your own in the next step. you man want to skim material or read chapter summaries or introductions to gather information to have a basic idea of what you're doing.
Have you ever bought a new video game and take a quick look at the manual before you popped the cartridge in your video game system and started playing? That's exactly what you want to do here. After you've played around a bit, in the next step you can go back and read the manual in full. But for now, learn the basics and get right into playing the game. Learn the basics quickly and start playing around.
Step8 : Play around
Most people attempt to learn a subject by reading a book or watching a video about that subject. They'll try to absorb as much information upfront and then take action later. The problem with this approach is that when they're reading about their subject, they have no idea what is important. They're just following the path someone has laid out of them.
One of the first thing you do is play and experiment on your own. With this approach, you learn by exploring and doing. As you play around, your brain naturally forms questions : How does this work? What happens If I do this? How do I solve this problem?
These questions lead you in the direction of what's actually important, when you get back and find your answers to your own questions, not only will it be more rewarding, but you'll remember more of what you study, because what you learn will be important to you.
Step9 : Learn enough to do something useful.
When we're children, we have rapid periods of learning driven mainly by curiosity, we want to know how the world works, so we ask questions and seek out answers to help us understand the world we're living in.
The goal of this step is to bring that curiosity-fueled learning back. In step 8, you played around and hopefully came up with some questions that you couldn't find answers to on your own. Now is the time to answer those questions. For this step, you'll go through all the resources you gathered and learn about your module in depth.
As you're reading text, watching videos, having conversations, or doing whatever else is necessary to consume the resources you've chosen, look for the answers to the questions you came up with in the previous step. This is your chance to really dig into the material and learn as much as you can.
Take as much time as you need to thoroughly understand your subject matter by reading and experimenting, watching and doing.
Remember, though, you still don't have to completely consume every single resource you gathered. only read or watch the parts that are relevant to what you're trying to learn right now. There are no golden stickers given out for reading a book cover to cover. use the resources to help you teach yourself, driven primarily by the questions you've comp up with by playing around.
Finally don't forget about your success criteria you defined in step3.
Try to tie what you're learning back to your ultimate goal. Each module you master should in some way move your forward toward your final destination.
Step10 : Teach
Most people are afraid to teach. I know I was. It's easy to be filled with thoughts of self-doubt when you're considering whether you're worthy or not to teach what you know to someone else. But if you want to learn a subject in depth, if you really want to gain understanding about a subject, you have to teach it. There's no other way.
In reality, you only need to be one step ahead of someone to teach them. Sometimes, in fact, experts who are many steps ahead of a student have a hard time teaching, because they can't relate to the student.
For this step, I'm going to ask you to move out of your comfort zone and teach what you've learned to someone else. It's the only way to know for sure that you've learned something.
It's a process that will cause you to really dissect and understand the topic you're learning about in your own mind as you organize the information in a way that will make it understandable to others. I've made the greatest leaps in my career and professional development and in my own understanding when I started teaching.
The important thing is that you actually take some time to take what you've learned out of your own mind and organize it in a way that someone else can understand, when you go through this process, you'll find that there are many things that you though you understood that you didn't. You'll also begin to make connections that you didn't see before and simplify the information in your head as you try to condense it down and regurgitate it.
It may be tempting, but whatever you do, don't skip this step, This step is crucial to retaining information and developing more than a surface level understanding of a subject.
Fin :
If the steps in this process don't work for you or you feel the formality is unnecessary, by all means, throw them out. The steps themselves aren't important. The important thing is to develop a system that you can use to teach yourself - a system that you can consistently apply to get results.
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