How I Handle My Workload

…repetition is the mother of all skill.

When I first heard this I didn’t realize how it truly changed the perspective of my life and learning process.

Before then I always wondered how I would learn anything and be good enough to share it or prove what I knew.

I found this fact to be true because at the core of learning anything it’s a matter of taking a piece of information to reading, studying and practicing it until you are able to internalize it and teach it someone else.

But in order to teach it to someone else you must practice it as many times for it to be ingrained in your memory.

Sometimes it’s a quick and easy, and sometimes it takes a little longer. Either way, the more you repeat it the more it becomes apart of your subconscious.

I understood this concept when I thought back to my school boy days as a child.

Back then we used to have these competitions where they would give us a set of questions and answers and we would have to memorize them.

After a month of studying and practicing, and depending how long you studied for, determined how well you would do in the competition.

You would know the question inside out, from the first word to the last and were able to give the correct answer accordingly.

Same process goes for a spelling bee competition.

There were words you would have to memorize and spell correctly and the more you repeatedly study these specific words the more you were able to internalize them.

It’s as if the words become second nature to you.

Not realizing how and why this concept worked I struggled through school and life.

Learning, or knowing how to do something, is simply doing something without consciously thinking of the in-between steps.

For example, when I was learning to drive a manual car I had to learn how to shift gears, when to shift, and not to mention be aware of the surrounding drivers.

Learning it was the hard part, but once I understood the fundamentals of gear shifting it was easier and I began to follow through the steps subconsciously and at a faster speed.

It was to the point that I can focus on other things as opposed to what gear do I change to now.

I now knew how to drive and could teach it to someone else.

The Same goes for driving.

There are a whole bunch of steps you must learn to accurately navigate on the road, but now everyone does it almost naturally and even doing things they shouldn’t while behind the wheel…

like shaving.

You could always get better and add onto those skills but the fundamentals are there and do not need to be relearned.

When I first began learning the world of web development and coding, there were so many road blocks in my way, mentally and physically.

Then one day, it hit me.

“repetition is the mother of all skill”

If repetition is the mother of all skill then why don’t I take that same concept and use it in this situation.

Instead of looking at everything I had to learn why not break up the language into smaller bite size pieces and practice them until I have a good concept on them.

When I approached coding like that I began to see leaps in my learning.

The more I kept repeating the same bite size section over and over I wasn’t just seeing the same thing, but my mind began to internalize it…

Then something else happened, my mind began to question why this statement, function, or word was formated that way.

I saw the bigger picture from the smaller pieces.

It was great and learning to code became fun.

I mean think back when you were a kid. You weren’t writing papers and reading blogs or formulating opinions.

You were learning your abcs, and from your abcs you learned how to make words, and then you began to put relationships to each word til you made a sentence.

“See Jane Run”

You remember that, right? Now that seems like childs play…

but it’s the core fundamentals that we all must go through in order to learn a new art or skill.

It worked back then and will until the end of time. Every child does it no matter what culture or country they come from.

So this is how I take on any workload.

I find what the bigger picture is and break it up into smaller pieces.

That is the whole reason I am creating this business strategy for developing a learning program for young developers.

What are the core fundamentals that they need to learn in order to grasp the idea of coding, and how can we make it fun and interactive as if learning the alphabet?

I hope you take anything you want to learn or any project that you need to finish with this core principle and mindset.

If you’re interested in seeing me and my process of this business development stay tuned and follow me as I create this coding program for young developers.