I find that a read/do cycle works really well, especially with a specific task at hand. Doing is important, but if you can learn from others at the same time I find it works really well.
The task at hand is merely to focus your attention on the specific path and along that path you'll learn what you need to do the other things in the field.
If you're trying to learn accounting it won't work by just reading a book, or just trying to balance your cheque book, but if you have a book and you refer to it while progressing through the balancing of your cheque book you'll learn what you need to know, and a large number of things that you didn't know you didn't know which you can learn later with a specific task in mind.
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I find that a read/do cycle works really well, especially with a specific task at hand. Doing is important, but if you can learn from others at the same time I find it works really well.
The task at hand is merely to focus your attention on the specific path and along that path you'll learn what you need to do the other things in the field.
If you're trying to learn accounting it won't work by just reading a book, or just trying to balance your cheque book, but if you have a book and you refer to it while progressing through the balancing of your cheque book you'll learn what you need to know, and a large number of things that you didn't know you didn't know which you can learn later with a specific task in mind.