The University of You

I’ve said it before that sometimes learning on YouTube is the way to go, sometimes reading is the way to go, sometimes listening to music is the way to learn, and there are numerous other ways, but I’ve noticed that although its can be awesome to learn from others we also teach ourselves, and “make our own curriculum” in some ways. I put this in quotes because it’s not at all about the university experience, its about discovering what the tools you need and learning what you need to know to succeed.

I just taught myself how to draw lines in Adobe today, I didn’t watch a video, I’ve hardly read anything about it before, and I only asked a few questions, I just kind of went after it, clicked around and solved my problems as I went, the end result today wasn’t perfect, but it was a process that worked for today.

It goes back to the mantra: try, try, try again. Even though this idea isn’t helpful a hundred percent of the time it can work when you need to get somewhere with a problem, and you’ll learn something anyway at least.