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- - - - Breakdown into smaller goals
      - Tackle small goals
      - Celebrate your each small goal completed
  - - - Local meetups
      - Commenting on their blog
      - Via Twitter
    - - Post to a blog
      - Write books
      - Speak at conferences/meetups
  - - - Daily log
      - Give presentations
      - Speak up
    - - People avoid problems
      - Get reputation as the "go to person"
  - - - Saying No
      - Not taking shortcuts
      - Prepared to make tough decisions
- - - - Generates inbound interest
      - Build reputation
      - Improve communication skills
      - Forced to continuously improve
      - Primes the interview
      - Stepping stone to bigger things
        
        Books
        
        Jobs
        
        Conference speaking
    - - Find niche
      - Post regularly
      - Write quality content
      - Stick with it
        
        Writing is a skill
        
        Win some, lose some
        
        Most bloggers drop out
      - Don't hoard knowledge
    - - LinkedIn
      - Reddit
      - Twitter
  - - - Interactive
      - Personal
    - - Meetups
      - Conference
      - Youtube
  - - - Can take 10 - 15 hours to read
      - Reader has brought the book
  - - - Good and bad days
      - No one will remember
      - Don't be put off
      - Be prepared for criticism
    - - Remember lessons better
      - We only grow when we are pushing it
- - - - 5. Create a learning plan
        
        Determine how to achieve success
        
        Look for common steps, Across multiple resources
      - 6. Filter resources
        
        Don't try to read everything
        
        Don't waste your time
      - 7. Learn enough to get started
        
        Read just enough to get started
      - 4. Find resources
        
        Look for breadth here
        
        Multiple sources
        
        Stay within scope
      - 8.Play around
        
        Jump in
        
        Discover unknowns
        
        Keep track of questions that come up
        
        Don't worry about outcomes
        
        Enjoy
      - 3. Define success
        
        Something to aim for
        
        Something to attainable
        
        Helps to keep you on track
      - 9. Learn enough to do something useful
        
        Answer questions discovered when playing
        
        Go back and repeat 8
        
        Target moving towards success
      - 2. Determine scope
        
        Narrow down on what you want
        
        Be specfic
        
        Be clear
        
        Define reason to learn
      - 10. Teach
        
        Best way to reinforce learning
        
        Discover gaps in knowledge
        
        Ways
        
        Write blog post
        
        Create YouTube video
        
        Give presentation
        
        Have a conversation about the subject
        
        Answer on Stackoverflow
      - 1. Get the big picture
        
        10,000 feet view
        
        Wikipedia
  - - - Discover gaps
        
        Only know patterns, not why things are
        
        Surface level understanding
      - Show our weaknesses
      - Help to organise your knowledge
        
        Force together knowledge...
        
        From different source
        
        Gathered at different times
        
        Creates a linear path of knowledge
    - - Overestimate knowledge
      - Fool yourself in thinking you know it
      - Arrogance
  - - - Repetitive manual tasks
        
        Terminal
        
        Unii QA emails
        
        IDE commands
      - Anything I know I'm winging
      - Interviews
        
        General trends
        
        What I'm I expected to know
      - Where I'm I spending most of my time
      - Pain points
    - - Create a learning routine
      - Play
      - Teach
      - Be honest
        
        In conversations
        
        Don't be embrassed
- - - - Thought becomes reality
      - Feel better about yourself
    - - Actively think of positive things
      - Don't drown in negative moments
      - Choose to be happy
      - Take some you time
      - Play more
    - - Fake it till you make it
    - - Learn from it
      - Remember you only grow when you are outside your comfort zone
  - - - Martial satisfaction
      - Higher income
      - Better physical health
      - Longer life
      - Friends
- - - - Momentum
        
        Easier to keep going than to start again
        
        Avoids having to lay the foundation of a task multiple times
      - Schedule breaks
      - Batch tasks
        
        Get in the "zone"
        
        Create a schedule
    - - Set small time goals
      - Start task straight away
        
        No checking social media
        
        No cleaning the house first
    - - Avoid
      - Use batching instead
  - - - Do most important tasks first
      - Update plan as things change
    - - Track progress
        
        Avoid time wasters
        
        Don't be too harsh
      - Create a routine
        
        Become 2nd nature
        
        Do without thinking
      - Share plan
        
        Peer pressure
        
        Makes it more real
        
        Gather feedback
        
        Possible embarrassment
    - - Measurable
      - Stick to them
      - Tough but do-able
      - Personal
  - - - Clear goal for each task
      - One step at a time
    - - Success == job done
      - Failure == learnings
      - No action == same position