The world is changing lightning fast, but so can you. In today's blog, I'm going to walk you through a step-by-step process to learn fast, while also gaining a deep understanding.
Disclaimer: The way I learn is not shallow; information written in simplified form I use as little as possible, most often I look for fundamentals in specs, documentation, and books, to seek a fundamental understanding.
With that being said, let's dive into how it's done.
How I leverage AI in my learning process
A lot of people are scared of AI replacing their jobs, while a lot of jobs will indeed be replaced, your intellect never will. And the better you become at understanding, learning skills, and consolidating new knowledge, the greater you will grow. This also means that you can add more value to society in the coming age.
Here's how I use AI in my learning process, first I keep this mental note, AI has seen patterns accross many domains, better than we humans probably can. Some people ask, 'But what if AI is wrong?' Well, 'what if the resource you're getting information from is wrong?' Same question, different lens.
So, how do I use AI in my learning process? Lets give you an example, for example am interested in Blockchain, I want to be able to build blockchain with Rust, then the question is how, herefor I go to ChatGPT and ask 'what are the core fundamentals of Rust?' then it answers me by giving the core fundamentals such as, Stack/Heap, Ownership, Borrowing, and the rest of the core fundamentals. After that, I ask, create a roadmap to learn these core fundamentals in the deepest way possible while only using resources such as specs, documentation, books, and very deep blogs.
Then I follow the roadmap of core fundamentals.
I have done this for multiple layers. To name a few, I built the core fundamental understanding of Rust 6 months ago, then I used those core fundamentals to build Hash Algorithms, such as SHA1/256/512, RIPEMD-160, MD4/5, and multiple other Hash Algorithms. If you want to take a look, you can click here.
Now you've understood how you can leverage AI in your learning process, let's take a look at the steps that I've organised.
The step process in an organised manner.
- Define the goal
- Go to AI and ask: "What are the core fundamentals I need to build a 1st principled foundation in {subject, skill, etc (use only one word)}".
- Ask it to build a roadmap for X amount of hours only using specs, documentations, and books (quick note: ask for the best chapters of the book, even better find a PDF of the book it just gave, then feed it to GPT and ask the question again: what are the best chapters of the book to build X understanding).
- Always apply what you learn as soon as possible, even if it breaks no matter what, put your ego aside and apply.
- Reflect on what you've applied. Here are 5 simple questions you can ask yourself: (i) What did I work on? (ii) What broke before it was fixed? (iii) What did I learn from this work? (vi) What is the Why behind Closures? (iv) What is an area for improvement?
Reminder: Thanks to new technologies, we often get confused. To take a part of that away, keep asking, 'How does something make me better?' 'How will it improve society?' That makes you think of solutions.
Till the next one.