Don’t Just Learn, Do!

We all have come to be victims of this especially at the beginning of our learning curves where we just observe and watch rather than take action.

There could be many reasons to this. One common reason though is people are scared or fear that they are not ready. Remove this delusion from your mind and take action. By implementing actions, you are more prone to developing the skills much faster.

Yes, observing and learning is obviously key to grasping the concept but don’t waste too much time on this as well as practice what you have learnt to develop and take in the information visually and through experience.

Another crucial reason why people don’t take action instantly is because they hesitate and feel they don’t understand it enough to be able to put it into practice. What people fail to comprehend at this point is at that if they put what they are learning into practice, then they would eventually gather an understanding much quicker and be able to move on and increase their skills.

Both activities are good and necessary to ensure you develop and achieve the goals you aim to achieve but to single them out and focus on learning with no implementation of this newly found information would set you up with a weaker understanding.

Experience in accomplishing a certain task gives you a greater understanding as well as uplifts your confidence in tackling it in the future for your understanding of the concept increases.

Learning is not always just taking in information and remembering it or just having a mental picture of how it should be done but taking the time to practice what you have learnt and making use of that information.

Another point that I would like to stress upon is that when you want to learn something, especially in IT and programming, you should do something that you want to accomplish.

Let’s just say that you want to build an application. What would you want the application to do? Break down the different functions you wish for the application to be able to do and research and learn as to how this can be done.

When you discover the method used to do this, you should put it into action and implement it into your application and watch how your application takes shape and your understanding of each feature and concept becomes easier to understand.

I hope that this little piece of information would assist and help you in your journey to learning especially in the world of IT and programming. I believe if you take these points and put it into action into your life, you would find much improvement and reap a greater understanding and much more efficiently.