My Challenging Learning Experience.

As students or as graduates we can all attest to a time where we had to own our own learning. It might have been due to the fact that the lecturer wasn’t really much of a “follower to his calling” or you just did not understand a single aspect of what he taught in class.

You might also be part of the second group of individuals, you love adding something new to the little cabinets and rooms up in your brain. A believer of the words by Leo Buscaglia

“Change is the end result of true learning”

Until recently, everything I taught myself I already had some sort of background, be it from a book I read or a course I took while in campus, they all provided a familiar taste to whatever new content i was feeding on.

But what happens when push comes to shove? When you have to complete a project and it seems neither your skill set nor the knowledge you acquired from all your toiling in school that made you feel so astute is necessary to complete it. The instructions, let alone the work itself, seem so puzzling and at the end of it all you can sing them word by word as you’ve been rereading them each time trying to understand something, anything.

I’ll tell you what happens.

Questions and doubt flood your mind. Am I good enough? Can I do this? How will I ever be at the same level as the others, I’ve never encountered such? Even if I study, will I understand each and every aspect?

But that is all noise, when this isn’t just a project. It’s an opportunity and a gateway to something you really love and want. So will you let those little voices tell you you can’t do it?

No!

You psych yourself up. You sing to yourself that you can do it. You assign priority to every item you need to learn and you start from 0 with the aim of building up to 100.

As I conclude, when your “why” is strong, you’ll figure out “how.” In a weekend alone I’d learnt things i could only dream of. I’m pretty certain what awaits will be mind blowing and I can’t wait!

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