Till perfection

Human beings like to maintain a nice overview over things. Genetically that just makes us feel good. Yet sometimes when our inborn curiosity wanders just a little too close to the unknown, the nice mental overview turns into a blur of concepts and relations we no longer cannot map together. Our nice mental overview is replaced with unpleasant confusion.

We’re genetically programmed to feel unease when this feeling arises. I suspect many of us in situations like these, too often obey our native “stupid” mental reflexes that blindly steer our mind to the nearest safe harbor. Because of our intense confusion-phobia the value of understanding the actual cause of the confusion is totally neglected in the process.

Instead, what we should do, is take a deep breath and take advantage of the situation by embracing the confusion. Whenever confusion kicks in, see it as a free gift holding valuable information on where to improve.

To the determined learner, great confusing thus often leeds to great enlightenment.

I’m a big fan of notebooks, schedules, dictaphones and the like. Anything that can be used to record your thoughts as they fly by.

The less thoughts you force your brain to manage, the less brain processing power will be left for whatever tasks that may pop up during your day. Therefore, the more information you can offload to “external storage devices” (notebooks, schedules). See and use these devices as external extensions of your brain!

I am often asked what kinds of education I would recommend for young hopeful people who want to learn the art of building a successful web business. Unfortunately, I cannot come up with a good answer to that question. What I can do though, is sharing one of the key reasons for why I am where I am today.

You may call me a nerd or anti-social all you want, but I just love spending an entire weekend coding away while immersing myself in my favorite technologies. The primary reason being, that it is one of the absolute best way to lure out my creativity!

I love to read and learn. Feeling better than yesterday is an incredibly satisfying feeling for me. However, there are some periods where my reading gets into slow motion. Days can go by, and suddenly I realize I haven’t touched my current book for a week. Sound familiar? I’d like to share a simple yet powerful idea on how to avoid this from happening.

In the world of software development technology is pushed forward at an extreme pace. Of this reason, all clever developers acknowledge the significant value of continuous learning (which I talked about in Known your weaknesses). Those who are the best learners, eventually ends up being the best in their field. Simple.

In this article, I want to share a thought about why teaching optimizes your learning.