Goals on basecamp projects
My goal is to learn how to learn more effectively. I don't know how to better define my goal, in my mind what I really want is to start practicing from the basics.
My biggest problem right now is that I'm not very good at learning, or not as good as I would like and it has a direct effect on my current life project: learning to program and do web-dev.
If I could learn more effectively, I would get where I want to go faster and with less friction.
Plan:
My biggest problem right now is that I'm not very good at learning, or not as good as I would like and it has a direct effect on my current life project: learning to program and do web-dev.
If I could learn more effectively, I would get where I want to go faster and with less friction.
Plan:
- Three days a week use 30-60 min of the evening to do a micro project and share it on basecamp or follow up on a previous one.
- Practicing using idea trees. I began using them for solving coding challenges. Last week I used one to make a plan for the course I just started. Today I used it to write down the steps for a CSS project. I assume that as I get more comfortable using them, I'll start making IT about many other things. If I share some of those on basecamp, people could criticize them and I could improve them. Even if they don't it helps me track my progress.
- As I do more stuff like the above, I'll have more questions. I have to get comfortable asking questions to other members of FI that are more advanced.
- If I don't post anything, I can still read conversations and projects. I can learn from people who are more advanced than me but are not very far from my level. Usually, they do projects that are similar to what I could do at my level so it's easier to relate.
What have you noticed as a problem? What goes wrong? What do you want to be different? How will you know when your problem is solved? What will you look for to see that a change has happened or to know how effective your changes are? How will you evaluate success? (These are all meant as different ways to approach the same, single issue about identifying the problem situation more.)
I don't know how I will evaluate success yet. I know I have made progress because I'm more organized now. I keep logs of what I do and whenever I start learning something new I try to make a plan and practice doing some exercises. I assume I'm doing this badly because I'm not as rigorous as other people on FI with their projects. But I used to not plan nor practice.
In my mind getting better at learning just means that I become more organized and focused. But I don't know how to measure this or know when I have reached my goal.
I know I have to practice much more doing small projects correctly. I think I will also learn how to evaluate success better.