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Some of us continuously have to get better at new things or learn new things in our professional life, which might be making it harder to learn new things outsi
by utopkara 13y ago
Some of us continuously have to get better at new things or learn new things in our professional life, which might be making it harder to learn new things outside of work. There are so many things that I would like to invest a year to get better at, outside of work. For some reason, I cannot manage the process of simultaneously self learning new things in completely different domains. Either one or both of the self-learning threads get sloppy for me. Perhaps, because self-learning is also an exploratory process so it needs time investment in large chunks, or because our learning resources are limited.
- mtrimpe 13y agoI think you're creating a false dichotomy in your mind though, since a lot of these other things you learn will actually be part of your down-time so to speak and they will cross-pollinate more than you think. In this video you see more than just learning to dance for example, you see someone going from being afraid to fully express herself to purposefully giving everything she's got in the moment; a very powerful skill to have. I recently started a writing course for example and I've been finding parallels between writing and coding that've been incredibly helpful in starting to do persuasive copy in my startup.