How I Learn Anything Quickly

As a software developer, you are probably well aware of the feeling: You are overwhelmed by the amount of interesting stuff you want to test and learn. But I’m sure that this problem is also very common in other fields.

If you feel like me, you may read and watch various books, blog articles or online courses, but you won’t really keep much of their contents.

In today’s article, I’d like to help you to learn more effectively about the topics that really interest you, wasting less time.

I apologize in advance for all my personal examples coming from my projects as a software developer, but I’m sure you can draw parallels and transfer my experience to your own even without the appropriate knowledge.

Before we dive in, I would like to introduce you to a tool that has often helped me when I was looking for an initial idea of a topic: learn-anything.xyz is a website that lists sources based on a keyword that offers you learning materials. There are many different topics and it can’t hurt to drop by here.

Before I restructured my learning flow, I used to google for “How to learn XY” and work through the first tutorial I could find. You can certainly imagine that this is not really effective. Often the contents are outdated, incomplete or just incorrect. Another problem I often had is watching video tutorials without trying out the acquired skills directly. Based on the idea “That looks easy” I watched the whole video and didn’t even get a simple “Hello World”…