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notebook/2020-07-08-22-42-47.org

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 #+title: Learning a new skill often starts from specific places
 #+date: "2020-07-08 22:42:47 +08:00"
-#+date_modified: "2021-07-19 19:08:26 +08:00"
+#+date_modified: "2022-01-09 11:50:50 +08:00"
 #+language: en
 
 
 We often [[id:01459b18-3f30-418e-bd8d-42661d5ea223][Start with wishful thinking]].
 Thus, most would start learning with the top-bottom approach (i.e., specific to general topics).
 
+A lot of those learning process starts from what you've seen from other people.
+You want to [[id:088acbae-4394-4771-9cef-3b336b101f80][Look into tutorials with a solid-end goal]] or [[id:7f73f745-8ce0-4a02-b454-1b7c57b1e202][Follow the experts in the field]].
+You most likely start from similar types as [[id:e158b742-53c7-4442-9af3-489ea8240af9][Examples and stories are more memorable than explanations]].
+
 Documenting this process, the core of [[id:af0ccefe-c671-47bf-94f7-62243c805745][Skill-building]] has the following workflow.
 
 - Document your specific example (e.g., a website, a drawing, a 3D scene).
@@ -22,8 +26,9 @@ Documenting this process, the core of [[id:af0ccefe-c671-47bf-94f7-62243c805745]
   If the underlying concept is not yet understood, then dig deeper into understanding the underlying concept of that underlying concept ad infinitum.
 
 - With the tree of to-be-understood underlying concepts, take a peek between each underlying concepts  of various depths until you can easily see the connections between them.
+  Be careful of [[id:9138397a-a965-45e9-97ea-71849e8d4f94][Overlearning]].
 
-- Work your way up the knowledge tree you've just created until you can reproduce/create the example with your newfound hierarchical knowledge.
+- Work your way up the knowledge tree you've just created until you can reproduce/create the example with your newfound hierarchical knowledge accurately.
 
 The key idea is to [[id:92a10fe2-f4d1-4e5e-b5f4-3779db13a2e5][Create roadmaps to stay on track]].
 Normally, we do the above process subconciously but to explicitly write tasks and projects that we want to tackle can lessen the burden.

notebook/2021-04-06-22-25-17.org

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 #+title: Prefer referencing over remembering
 #+date: "2021-04-06 22:25:17 +08:00"
-#+date_modified: "2021-08-07 11:01:01 +08:00"
+#+date_modified: "2022-01-05 22:42:30 +08:00"
 #+language: en
 #+tags: personal-info-management
 
@@ -19,20 +19,19 @@ The gist of it is knowing the basics of a concept and its relations to others,
 This enables you to come up with a more effective search query.
 If nothing else, you could take advantage of the help system insisted by the tool.
 
-Examples:
+Here are some examples:
+
+- Leave links to official documentations and guides instead of writing detailed notes for yourself.
 
 - On a Unix-based environment, for example, has the manual pages with ~man~ and you can search through ~apropos~.
   This is especially needed if you're using BSD-based operating systems such as FreeBSD and OpenBSD.
 
 - [[https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/][Texinfo]] and [[https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr][tldr pages]].
 
-- [[id:ce6ab58e-b295-4fdb-8af7-fc89c63ec208][GNU Emacs]] has a great built-in help system.
-  (See [[id:0efb9c51-3a12-4e5a-9e9b-d48cf4bd53ce][Using the built-in help system of Emacs]] for more details.)
+- [[id:0efb9c51-3a12-4e5a-9e9b-d48cf4bd53ce][Using the built-in help system of Emacs]].
 
 - [[id:ea263f6f-fa8e-4e6d-a585-d30d493d1e3c][Add a desktop search engine for your digital library]].
 
 - Referring to official documentation and tools (e.g., [[https://devdocs.io/][DevDocs]], [[https://zealdocs.org/][Zeal]]).
 
 - Making full use of search tools from programs such as the command palette in [[roam:Visual Studio Code]], help system in Microsoft Word, and dynamic menus in roam:Blender.
-
-If the system has a way of referencing something (other than the internet), use it to your advantage as you may find something valuable.

notebook/2021-07-21-17-59-19.org

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 #+title: Examples and stories are more memorable than explanations
 #+date: 2021-07-21 17:59:19 +08:00
-#+date_modified: 2021-07-22 14:27:17 +08:00
+#+date_modified: 2022-01-09 11:25:08 +08:00
 #+language: en
 
 
@@ -15,3 +15,5 @@
 - at times, we are also more creative than logical but it does not mean that [[id:2b2a4c85-905a-478c-9e2c-2a64d08e4785][Creativity and logic are not opposites]]
 - obviously, this doesn't mean explanations should be abandoned;
   [[id:c0e4fb0e-68f2-4db4-8c3e-f5a7845738c3][Understanding comes first from memory]] and explanations tend to be one of the first things we remember when going back to a topic
+- furthermore, those examples can serve as practical way to start learning on things;
+  [[id:1a6187c9-6c79-4378-bf8d-935c8a3d9167][Learning a new skill often starts from specific places]]

notebook/2021-07-22-14-01-10.org

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 #+title: Communicate with others to learn
 #+date: 2021-07-22 14:01:10 +08:00
-#+date_modified: 2021-07-30 13:45:22 +08:00
+#+date_modified: 2022-01-09 12:10:33 +08:00
 #+language: en
 
 
@@ -13,3 +13,12 @@ Furthermore, depending on the community, you can learn more outside of the niche
 This is best used for making a quick feedback loop especially [[id:10214008-71da-4d1e-b761-80e671d6fc40][When starting out, focus on quantity over quality]].
 
 Though, you have to choose your community and target audience to make more effective feedback.
+
+Doing this practice can also net some benefits:
+
+- As you [[id:7f73f745-8ce0-4a02-b454-1b7c57b1e202][Follow the experts in the field]], you can create ideas from their experiments.
+
+- You can look into how others do as you [[id:fdf9e3eb-02c5-47a6-b586-e71a5c92d01a][Look for live sessions as another form of examples]] and help out one another to understand an idea.
+
+- Having others present can present another perspective as most of them have different experiences to offer.
+  [[id:2667d942-48b6-4d1e-b92b-15c2dab645ed][Switching between different topics makes new perspective]].

notebook/2022-01-09-11-37-21.org

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+:PROPERTIES:
+:ID:       088acbae-4394-4771-9cef-3b336b101f80
+:END:
+#+title: Look into tutorials with a solid-end goal
+#+date: 2022-01-09 11:37:21 +08:00
+#+date_modified: 2022-01-09 12:21:10 +08:00
+#+language: en
+
+
+Oftentimes, [[id:e158b742-53c7-4442-9af3-489ea8240af9][Examples and stories are more memorable than explanations]].
+This includes tutorials with a solid-end goal.
+
+Consider this idea with the following example:
+
+#+begin_quote
+A general purpose book that teaches you how to use Adobe Photoshop with information that is full to the brim but no solid examples versus a video tutorial that teaches how to create a cool-looking logo with Photoshop.
+#+end_quote
+
+With this, the scenario for most people will most likely end up like the following:
+
+- The book will eventually teach us nothing as there's no practical application to make use of our newly-learnt knowledge.
+  (Though the practice could be effective by skimming the content.)
+
+- While the video tutorial is specific, we have taught how to make use of several things in one intertwined way.
+  The video example may showcase workflows that gives you more ideas how a thing work.
+
+In most cases, we'll end up more informed with the video tutorial as most of us [[id:01459b18-3f30-418e-bd8d-42661d5ea223][Start with wishful thinking]] when [[id:af0ccefe-c671-47bf-94f7-62243c805745][Skill-building]].
+Furthermore, a lot of the example-specific tutorials subtly showcases two or more information.
+As you learn how to recreate the tutorial, you'll gather more ideas.
+You have the prerequisites to understand and transfer those skills into another project.
+Going back with the Photoshop video tutorial example, you now have learnt several things such as how to create shapes, apply gradients, and masking which is useful for other projects.
+
+It is sometimes better to know how to accomplish something without knowing how it works.
+You can always look into it later and to prevent [[id:9138397a-a965-45e9-97ea-71849e8d4f94][Overlearning]].
+[[id:10214008-71da-4d1e-b761-80e671d6fc40][When starting out, focus on quantity over quality]] as you can create more ideas while following more tutorials.
+
+Even more specific, you can look into how others do such thing.
+[[id:fdf9e3eb-02c5-47a6-b586-e71a5c92d01a][Look for live sessions as another form of examples]] and [[id:6f9c552f-055b-4238-874e-8608006ce0ca][Communicate with others to learn]].