Rule:
Dedicate one hour a day to learning, five days per week
Result of taking out 1 hour a day
Results in accomplishing less in terms of short term productivity, constant learning is a long term investment
How do I make time?
Well this is cool and all but how?
- Do it first thing in the morning
- Your willpower to do this decreases throughout the day so if you do it first thing in the morning you get it out of the way and if you have a deadline hanging over your head then willpower doesn’t really play in a factor
- Work to eliminate low value activities
- Work on Time Tracking to see where you are wasting time and how much of it
What should I be learning?
There’s 3 types of learnings
Career skillset improvements
- Learning that directly impacts the skillset that you’re currently using in your career
Decreases in Domain Dependence
- Tons of expertise and skills in one particular area but have an inability to transfer those skills to new fields even if the 2 fields have a lot of similarity
Fix: Take skills to apply them to different challenges than what you are used to
Essential Skills
- Skills that everyone should know
Skills that’ll improve your life or expand your career opportunities
Example:
- Public Speaking
- Evaluate statistics
- Investing and saving money
- Learning how to think logically
- Learn how to build spreadsheets
Whatever you do just keep learning