My Process in learning

For almost four years I was struggling to learn a computer skill, I would sit down and learn Adobe Flash and action script and I will have a good progress but I’ll stop mid way to learn something else like Adobe Photoshop or Fruity Loops (Music Production software), I used to jump from one application to another or from one language to another, and with the habit of moving around and wanting to learn everything at once, ill forget.

This was a very bad thing to me, I would sit down and think that I had a bad memory or even worse, that am not cut out to do this, but again I will go back and say let me try harder and learn again. And again will go through the same cycle over and over again.

Now from the problem above, I have realized that I had two problems to deal with,
1- I am easily distracted and impatient.
2- My memory is not as sharp as it should be.

Easily Distracted,

Wrote down what I wanted to learn, in a very simple method. I used a mind mapping software as shown below, three categories and couple of categories underneath it and I was set on what I really wanted.  

And then I started with the first category and associated the languages within to learn the common ground on both languages and took off with one I desired. In this case I started with the objective c and learning how the language did emerge to life and what’s the common ground with C++.  And from there on I knew what I wanted to learn in that particular field.

Memory enhancements.

The Anki Method.

I thought that I would love to access my knowledge that I acquired through learning anytime -  anywhere without squeezing my brain cells, After a few minutes on Google I found this article which showed me how I can speed my learning process without spending countless hours reading and practicing over and over again. It was as simple as using flashcards.

I won’t go deep into this but I recommend the article for you if you would love to know how to memories things faster and why would you need that.

http://www.jackkinsella.ie/2011/12/05/janki-method.html

The Intro

The 1^st post should be something interesting, not really. I’ll talk about myself and what I used to do in the past for a while and then in the next posts ill share my experiences with you.

I have started blogging in 2006 with random posts here and there, about music, life and football (soccer) but I didn't find myself in them and as a result to that I could not post anything interesting so I decided to leave and search for something I would enjoy.  During my search I have found out that I mostly enjoyed everything that are related to multimedia (photography, Music production, Graphic and Web Design and Videography) .

Cause of my curiosity, it was hard for me to learn fast, because I always wanted to know everything at once, which the end result was knowing 40% of everything and that wasn't helpful and didn't put me in a place where I wanted. But with different techniques and ideas I came to utilize my brain to work with me rather than work against me. My brain could observe the information easily and take it in but would save it in a place where I can’t tap in, methods like using flashcards (Anki) really helped. i will share the articles and the method itself later on. 

I tried to keep the intro as short as possible and hopefully someone will use the information which I will be sharing here for a good use.