You have watched several tutorials, but your website has barely changed. Perhaps the next useful question is what you are trying to produce with what you learn.
Why read this: give learning an output
Scott H Young suggests defining learning projects around something you want to do or make. Reading a JavaScript book and building a working website set up different kinds of activity.
This guide uses his advice on designing a learning project. The value of your particular approach still needs to be checked in practice.
The core idea: practice the work you want to do
Make practice resemble the ability you want to develop. Reading remains necessary in many fields; bringing practice forward helps you discover which reading you need next.
“Learn content strategy” is difficult to inspect. A draft with a reader question, a central point, and a supporting example gives you something concrete to examine.
Apply it to an article you want to write
Read “How Can You Avoid This Trap?” and “Put practice first” in the original. Look at your own goal: does it end with knowing more, or with a result you could inspect?
One example is a small article card that states the audience, the problem, what the source author actually says, and an action the reader could take. This is this site's suggested exercise.
Try this today: make one learning output
- Write down the ability you want to learn.
- Choose a related output you could attempt in 15 minutes.
- Start making it. Return to the source when you encounter a specific gap.
- Save the result and name the next thing you would improve.
One output gives you evidence about this attempt. Building ability takes further practice on comparable tasks.
Return in two days
What gap did making the output expose? Which piece of learning material would directly help with that gap? Let the answer guide what you read next.
Original article and author
How to Build Skills That Matter · Scott H Young · April 2020. The article-card exercise was developed by this site.