hey everyone i'm Aliena and welcome to my channel i graduated from college this year
and after graduation i faced a problem i no longer have a structured way of learning
which made me feel very empty you see when i was in school there's always courses and infinite
deadlines that push me to learn stuff and do stuff in a structured way but during the day
of graduation everything's gone and i feel like i'm just not learning as much as before you see
for my brain to feel fulfilled i need to have both valuable input and influential output but honestly
i don't think i was having any of those for a long period of time and that's why i decided to
start taking online courses in the past year i've taken over 20 online courses
and it sounds like a lot but it's really just one hour per day and it really has changed my
life in a positive way today let me show you how i take any online course let's get started
i've used coursera udemy edx code academy busuu and brilliant and all these platforms are pretty
good if i know exactly what i want to learn especially for a professional reason then i
will just google whatever certificate course has the best name best rating and nice syllabus you
can also check out youtube reviews like this girl here she has perfect course review videos check
them out other than that i simply go on some of these platforms as if i'm like going shopping
just wandering around with an open mind learn things that interest me or things that i fear
so a lot of people come to me and be like hey i'm a full-time student i'm having a full-time work
how long is it gonna take everyone have different pace and all of us can start at any time even if
it's just five minutes per day or ten minutes per day it still makes a difference it's very easy for
us to just move a schedule to one month later so i hope after this video you get started with the
online course you want to take directly after watching this video okay stop procrastinating
another thing is to approach it with at least 50% of growth mindset most of us are goal-oriented we
want to take the course so that we can get a certificate or we want to take the course so
that in the future i can get this job but if you are only goal-oriented not growth oriented
then many of the time this mindset wouldn't push you through a lot of obstacles along the way
because you're only enjoying the final moment of finishing the course but not like the process of
learning the course so with some growth mindset thinking about i can learn something every day
and i'm just curious about this topic and i want to learn for the sake of learning it having at
least 50 percent of this kind of growth mindset will help you to enjoy the process way more and
that will eventually help you to get to your goal of finishing the course
my biggest learning when it comes to planning is that it's always easy to plan but difficult
to follow the plan and my biggest trick is actually find two accountability partners
finding two accountability partners directly sets you in a group environment that push you to learn
more and push you to compete a little bit but most importantly support each other to keep going
three is a magical number a triangle is always more stable than a line i'm pretty sure one
of your accountability partner will fall off the schedule one day and two of you can pull the other
person back if you only have one accountability partner if the other person quit then you are
very likely to quit as well because quitting is always easier than sticking to a schedule
so if you want to take an online course leave a comment in this video and maybe you can directly
find two accountability partners through the comment section don't forget to do that
now let me show you how i do my study session i will literally just show you my study session
for today i already take notes by notion i have a page called lifelong learning in which i save all
the notes for my online courses let's say google project management course um so for each course i
usually okay this is a large course consists of six smaller course so you really start a
page for each chapter or each smaller course and then just take notes from like important stuff
so for this one i did uh week one week two week three because the course is organized by chapter
um and i usually use point forms so in this way it's like easy to search sometimes i will include
some website pages because sometimes the course will provide some extra resource that i like
i will just include it here and i can just click it to check the resource this is the scrum guides
so this is for the google pm course i also did the google ux course
this is a little bit different because i also did a lot of case studies
so some case studies i also put it here and then the course notes and for today i'm going
to learn something from brilliant brilliant is a great platform for learning anything
tech math and science related today i'm going to keep learning cryptocurrency from brilliant
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use my code it will save you a lot of money so before i start a session i will start a notion
page and this template is something that i built for anything it's not just for learning but also
doing any task so before each task i give myself an estimated time honestly i'm just going to spend
around 25 minutes on the learning today because my camera is going out of battery the start time
is 2 46 p.m and then i will write something about what might l learn from doing the task
for this question i don't just write down like the exact thing like the knowledge knowledge i
want to learn but also write down something growth related that's just simply very personal to me
and then i usually just use this for my study session
going back to my course note cryptocurrency
today i'm going to do hash functions
here we go
here comes a distraction i got one package downstairs and really want to go grab it okay this
is really what i do when i want to do something or some thoughts come to my mind while i'm
studying i usually go back to my this task page on notion and then i just write down my distraction
Usually after i write down this distraction i can go back to my
task or my learning the thought is being handled by notion not by you know my action
so this kind of works now let's jump back to my study session
yay i'm done with this chapter and after i'm done with each session i usually will
write down something like what have i completed during my time
what have you learned while doing the task i learned a lot about flash function
and why hash function has to be collision resistant in crypto
i also learned that a camera is very it's better than what i expected and i shouldn't
spend most of my attention thinking about whether my camera will die perfect
what's your next step all right my next step is to
learn the next chapter
and update with my peers
that's it for this session
after weeks or months of taking the course i finally finished the course then what do
i do well the first thing i do is to look at my notion page and see whether my note is organized
and maybe write like a summary or whatever from the course so for me i
also do a linking post if it's a certificate i will just put it in my linkedin profile
and sometimes i will do a course review video you can also just give a rating for the course
that helps other people to see whether they want to learn the course or no
but most importantly i really hope that we can implement what we learned in real life projects
but please don't stop learning always keep learning learning one hour a day is a habit
that will change your life and make you feel more fulfilled and make you feel better about
yourself before i end this video i want to talk about brilliant i'm currently learning about
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i'm using brilliant to train that analytical part of my brain which is super helpful i think it's
super cool and useful if a person can do both creative thinking and scientific thinking and i
don't think they're like two entirely separate things i want to learn about quantum mechanics
i want to learn about crypto and to practice some math that i used to be very good at first brand
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thank you and aliena if you haven't subscribed to me you're missing out a lot okay maybe not that
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