In my last video, I had talked about the key
steps you need to follow to master Power BI
but I didn't get to the crucial missing step
and this is the step that I actually only recently discovered
andI feel slightly embarrassed because I've been teaching Power BI
for many years now. uh So in this video we're going to talk about this missing
step. So what is this all about this this
whole you know video series has been about
solving this problem of the learning doing app where people
are reading books they're reading blogs
they're watching videos they're even signing up for training courses
even including mine but they're still stuck and not
able to apply Power BI when they start applying to the
real business scenarios they get stuck and can't solve it.
And that's where I feel that there was one step that I was
missing. So again the four steps that I covered in the previous video
our program has been structured around those key pillars those concepts
but there was one step which I was missing as well.
That's what we're here to talk about today, Now if you did not
see the last video make sure to go back and watch it.
After you're done watching this video so watch the previous video
we're going to link it to um in the corner and down in the description below
but for now let's just focus on the missing
step. By the way my name is Avi Singh i'm a Microsoft MVP and a best-selling Power
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right so let's say you have learned
the 20 core concepts you have done real practice and you understand when to
use push versus pull learning and you can fill in the blanks in this
sentence power bi is dash bi right and again if this none
of this makes sense then at the end of it go back and watch
my previous studio which covered these key four steps but i saw students
who even after they go through all of that they
still kept getting stuck and i had to ask
myself the question why what am i missing
now hey let me walk you through a story right let's uh let's imagine you want to
learn to play soccer my son is a huge soccer
fan by the way it rubs off on me a little bit so let's
say you want to learn to play soccer and you approach the best coach in the
world nothing but the best for you but unfortunately for you the coach
turns you down right but as you're feeling a little bit sad and
depressed and you're walking out of his office
you find right there the coach's playbook
with all the different plays and his strategies
all inside so my question to you is can you become a great soccer player
by learning and practicing from the playbook what do you think
now probably won't that would be my guess
but what is it that the coach teaches besides these steps and the answer
was right in my face even for power bi learning
and it is the thought process now what is the thought process and why is
it important let's talk about that and of course how does it fit into
power bi so what is thought process why is it important
so imagine you're being you're being coached you have gone through the
playbook but the coach has given you one other thing which is the thought
process because when you step onto that soccer
field the playbook goes away because
real life is different real soccer is different people are not going to be in
the exact same spots and you are not going to be able to run the
exact same play so what what's crucial is is that not
only you understand and learn the playbook right
learn those concepts but you learn the thought process behind
it so that even when you're exposed to a
really new situation and again real soccer is
going to be different and even if the players are slightly
different you're still going to know what to do you're still going to know
how to solve this problem now you realize that this
is also the number one reason that people are
stuck and and you know have this they can't
cross this gap in power bi of go from learning to doing because they're
learning kind of display book right but real data is messy data right
real business is always slightly different ask
yourself isn't that when you get stuck right i mean
obviously i mean if you learned something in the playbook and it's
exactly the same which happens once in a while you you
can do it but if it's slightly different i guarantee you that is when you're
getting stuck and you go out looking for answers and again people
you know try and help you and so forth but again your case is
just slightly different from what they're saying and it still doesn't work
and you keep spinning your wheels because you're missing the crucial
element the thought process behind it if you had the thought process then you
would be able to solve any novel problem right a soccer player
doesn't just go out there and only does the things that they were
taught through the playbook no he has understood the thought process now the
funny thing is that this was staring right in my face
now i've been running the talk power bs sessions for
many years now at least two years and i've spent
hours on there now something that has happened
quite often on top power bi is i'm answering somebody's question and i'm
trying to solve some dax or m or whatever puzzle for them
and i'm unable to solve it it's happened a few times
and every single time i apologize saying hey i'm
sorry i wasn't able to solve it felt like a fool
but then inevitably the response was no arie this was
great because we got to see your thought process behind it how you
approach the problem doesn't matter whether you were or you were not able to
solve it the thought process is what's critical
and i wasn't giving it to my followers to my students
and i'm like so my friends that i feel is the missing step now if you want to
see an example of it in play then watch this video and again
it's not about the technique you may know how to
solve this problem it's not about that but i bet that you would learn something
from my thought process which i explained
in this video so we're going to link it in the
corner and down in the description below so hey
this is a big moment for us because we are going to pretty much
approach everything in this new light so in my youtube videos especially showing
power bi something solutions will not just show
you kind of the steps but we will show you the thought process
that i use to arrive at that solution right just just to give you a peek
inside my mind and of course we are right now in the
process of re-recording learn power bi videos to
update them but we're also embedding a little more detail in there
which doesn't just shows them the approach but it shows
a glimpse of what's under the cover the thought process
that goes behind how i think about it how i approach it
now we're also going to use this to revamp our advanced power bi layer and
really what we're going to do is we're going to go to the recording of
talk power bi sessions pick out the best the start questions
and re-record them to be modules inside
advanced power bi where i explain the thought process
which i always do on talk power bi right i always say i think out loud
but we're going to structure that and put that inside our advanced power bi
module we're also going to incorporate this
approach in our highest level program which is pro plus
now pro plus is all about somebody who wants to become
uh really have either a power use power bi
uh to create a side income or a full full-time income working as a freelancer
consultant entrepreneur solopreneur whatever you
want to call it right so that's that that's or my highest level program
and what we're doing there is i'm recording full consulting
sessions with clients and again power bi is agile bi and i
talk about how it's like peeling the onion
and i want them to see it so that is nothing about power bi
these people are learning to become consultants but what is my thought
process like how am i engaging with the client
and what i'm doing is i'm not only recording session
but i'm recording a recap of what i thought and then i go ahead and work on
the project then i come back and say hey here's what i did and here's
why so um that is what we're working on and we really hope
uh we really feel that this was the crucial missing step
and this is gonna bring our students and followers
so much closer in bridging this gap from learning
to doing so hey i'm super excited about this let me know in the comments if you
are too and again if you missed the first video
now is the time to go back and watch that
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