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A self-directed learner

Checklist for self-directed learning

Learning is a lifelong process, during which one needs to in control based on their personal needs and goals. You can pay a lot of tuition for a notable school but we cannot rely others to provide the perfect education personalized for you. learn to leveraging the resource and construct your own learning journey. Here is a checklist of things that you need to know in order to become an independent self-directed learner.

Growth mindset

Mindset is a simple idea discovered by world-renowned Stanford University psychologist Carol Dweck in decades of research on achievement and success — a simple idea that makes all the difference.
In a fixed mindset, people believe their basic qualities, like their intelligence or talent, are simply fixed traits. They spend their time documenting their intelligence or talent instead of developing them. They also believe that talent alone creates success — without effort. They’re wrong.
In a growth mindset, people believe that their most basic abilities can be developed through dedication and hard work — brains and talent are just the starting point. This view creates a love of learning and a resilience that is essential for great accomplishment. Virtually all great people have had these qualities.
Teaching a growth mindset creates motivation and productivity in the worlds of business, education, and sports. It enhances relationships. When you read Mindset, you’ll see how.

http://mindsetonline.com/whatisit/about/

Personal narrative/self-awareness

  1. Personal need
  2. Goal
  3. Feeling
  4. Surrounding

Soft skills

Critical reading = Active reading with thinking

  • Not every single word
  • Read more than once
  • Read aloud
  • SQ3R = Survey + Question +Read +Recite +Review
  • summrize: 3things important, 2 quotes, 1 summary
  • use graphics, outline, paraphrasing
  • notation what is important and take note

Sprint planning

  1. Time: Deadline/exploratory (uncertain deadline)
  2. Procedures: Deconstruct project and practice important substeps
  3. Goal: Target performance level for projects, deliverables
  4. People envision outcomes so outstanding that their expectations become more intimidating than inspirational.
  5. Imagine the opposite of what you want(important)
  6. Prioritize tasks in project management
  • Urgency/importance
  • Objective = progress + unsolved problems

Skill acquisition

  • Research the skill and related topics
  • Get critical tools
  • Identify mental models and mental hooks
  • Research how to use tool
  • Learn with reference and tutorials

Sprint practice cycle

  1. Jump in over your head wit confusion
  2. Create scaffolds and checklists(routine)
  3. Use spaced repetition and reinforcement for memorization
  4. Fast feedback loop, Keep build/test/fix approach, Make and test predictions
  • Observation
  • Knowns
  • Hypotheses
  • Test

5. compiling have-done lists bestows a sense of satisfaction and enhances performance

Honor our biology

Remove barriers, Eliminate distractions in your environment

  • Quiet and distraction free
  • Zone out ( headphone) in a quiet space
  • Get enought sleep before
  • Hungry, bring snacks
  • Hold the pages

Combat procrastination

In the inception and planning stages, you procrastinate because you don’t find the work interesting or meaningful.
In the action stage, you procrastinate because the project isn’t well structured, which creates uncertainty about how to proceed.
Fear of making a poor decision can also be immobilizing.
Dedicated productive time and take breaks

Outreach

  1. Talk to practitioners to set expectations
  2. Find mentor in the field
  3. Find a coach or coach yourself by self-recording and reflection
Learning how to learn is more meaningful than what you need to learn.