I am a programmer but this can apply to any field. There are many technologies that I want to know. So I start to read some book and then I jump to another book and so on. This makes me feel bad. Any advice of how to approach learning?
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Try to apply what you learn by implementing a small project, don't just read. Have a project in mind and you read a book, you will internatilize the concepts better. If you don't know what to develop, I can give you a few ideas, I am running out of time :) |
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You can't. There is simply too much knowledge to learn everything. But... it sounds like you want to learn how to learn, which can be done! A good place to start would be the learning questions already asked here. The rest depends on what you want to learn.
You can find more sites like these on this article: top 40 useful sites to learn new skills. |
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I have the same problem. I always read a different book every time I come across some interesting technology that I can't get enough of. I realized that repeating this would not make me any better. Right now, I try to focus myself on learning only one language since I wouldn't get anywhere if I try and learn all interesting and existing technologies. To get around my curiosity of other things, I read different blogs on different days, reading a thing or two about a new technology. In that case, I only focus my attention to one language while still being up to date with other technologies that I am interested in. Just limit yourself to one or two posts as it will be the start of the cycle of trying to learn everything once again. |
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As a programmer, I struggle with the same problem. There's simply too much out there to learn. That's the first step, accepting that you can't learn everything. From there, I would recommend keeping a list of things you want to learn, along with why you want to learn it, and prioritizing it. Then, keep focused on the top choice until you feel satisfied that you got what you wanted from pursuing that topic. Maybe you just want a high level of concepts in a particular technology, maybe you want to be able to use it reasonably well for a specific task, maybe you want to be an expert in the particular field. It doesn't matter. You have to set targets for your learning, otherwise you'll end up meandering off and just reading a bunch of books with no concrete goal, and you can spend forever going down those rabbit holes without ever feeling satisfied, which is my guess as to why you feel bad. |
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