Why to Learn something ?

The very first question you should ask yourself before starting anything is why to do it, Its crucial because a solid reason to work is necessary for being consistent towards your goal. You might be wondering its just never clear to me why am i doing something. If you feel that way its perfectly normal , the irony is we humans tend to understand very less about ourselves, are we even under control of our desires or we are just prisoner to our mind , it could be heavily debated so i will leave it for another time. Before diving into anything , we should carefully analyse the skills that we will gain so we can create a vision of what we will be capable of once we learn the damn thing. It is important because nobody wants to waste time learning something which may result in disappointment. If you decide to pursue the skill do remind yourselves of the vision each and everyday so you can keep your pace.

Some of you might be thinking what the hell is he talking about , he didn't even once mentioned anything about passion which is usually considered as an integral part of pursuing anything , we usually call something passion when we love doing it , and we often love what we are good at, Indeed the 21st century is not just about following your passions its about baking them. We just need the right start at something so we can build the necessary confidence which by all means can become our passion.

How to learn ?

It is not rocket science , a lot has already been said about this skill(obviously its a skill) , so I would not be giving any tricks on learning , instead will try to depict the importance of this skill , so why can't we survive without it.

If we talk about old times we had the notion of living our life in two phases one in which we built ourselves for first 25 - 30 years of our life and then rely on skills thus acquired for rest of our lives, but times have changed , now the pace of change is so fast that whatever you may learn it is highly probable that either becomes irrelevant or gets automated in a decade or two, so it is a no brainer that we need to keep evolving everyday to stay in the game which we must if we want to survive , hence the ability to learn will last much longer with us than any other skill so why not learn it first. What i mean is learning is an art which should be learned and has to be taken as a habit rather than a necessity. The best material on how to learn can be found on coursera by Dr Barbara Oakley , goes by the name learning how to learn (https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn),

it is no doubt one of the best in this regard. You can audit the course for free.

Now go and rock the above course. Believe me its worth it. Stay tuned for many more. See you in the comments.