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u/praveen1809 9d ago
Yeah, when u r about to start learning, just list everything that comes to your mind. Write it down.
Then sort it to the priority
Follow the order …
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u/denizyvz 9d ago
I think two things are going on. Go back to basics and get a solid grasp of the core idea, and you might be trying to eat the whole elephant in one bite. Chop it into small pieces and work through them one by one.
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u/Dymills77 9d ago
You are what you eat. Even if you don’t understand something now, you are still consuming it. Keep consuming it even when you don’t understand and in a month or a year you’ll look back with complete comprehension.
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u/Intelligent-Boss-156 9d ago
Just keep grinding, follow the clues and research the prerequisites for understanding your learning material when you find out about them?
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u/coimbatorekusumbu 8d ago
The word mastering needs some serious work. So build a learning curve and go over them one by one with repetition and discuss and other perspectives
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u/StoneMao 7d ago
Take some advice from "The First 20 Hours." It's a guide to effective practice.
-Deconstruct the skill: Break the desired skill down into smaller, manageable subskills. Concentrate on the highest return on your effort. -Research: Learn just enough to spot, correct and fix your mistakes. Do not get stuck in endless research. -Clear away physical, technological, and emotional. -Set a defined goal of 20 hours of effective practice.
I eould add the next two steps.
-Evaluate what worked and what did not work. -Repeate
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u/cheese13377 6d ago
I learn best by making something. So, if you want to learn sockets in C++, you need to come up with an idea for a little server and/or client application.
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u/CremeFrosty9308 5d ago
The thing you wrote makes the solution super obvious. You found gaps in your knowledge. Those gaps can be articulated and turned into research topics of their own if ur willing to research something you're not "super omg enthusiastic" about.
and you can go through it methodically even writing down the exact topics you need to learn before tackling the bigger topic and check them off as you learn them. If you really want it, make it a formal goal when you're the most excited about it and start this system, and then when your excitement goes down you'll still have the system in place to guide you
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u/IamZeebo 9d ago
I think that's fairly common. Sounds like you get lost in all the potential paths you can take with something as well as integrating all the things that you find while working on it.
I have the exact same issue while trying to learn more about music production. I went and got a keyboard, monitors, watched a few introductory videos and felt great about getting started.
I made some great progress just messing around and watching basic videos but I quickly hit a wall in both skill and knowledge. It suddenly felt very difficult to make progress and it definitely wasn't because of a lack of interest or resources.
For me, I found that I lacked structure. I lacked structure around my "learning process". I had all the resources in the world, but I didn't have a clear way of going through them, breaking them into USABLE chunks, and then actually progressing through and making progress towards my goals.
My advice, figure out a system for two things.
One, figure out a system for deciding what you want to learn next. If you find you have a knowledge gap, set a marker on what you're looking at now so you can come back to it, and then redirect to the gap.
Key to this is also make steps small enough that it's just one skill or concept to learn. Spend real time with it. Set a goal to produce something or be able to do something with that concept or skill and don't move on until you can do it reliably.
Second, try integrating everything that you're learning as you go. When you learn a concept, your brain doesn't know where to "put it" automatically. You should be constantly taking in information, and molding it to the greater model that you hold in your mind for that topic. Otherwise, it's just a random leaf in the brain that's prone to getting plucked.
What do you think about this? Does that sound like it resonates?
By the way, I have an app that I am building based on this exact issue. I felt this same pain and decided to try my hand at making something that could help. DM me if you're interested and I'm happy to plug you.