272: How to Learn New Skills with Treehouse’s Ryan Carson
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 11 March 2018
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Treehouse founder and CDO Ryan Carson shares lessons learned from helping thousands of professionals pick up new skills. We talk about the proper mental state, being realistic about your calendar, and how new confidence emerges.
You’ll Learn:
1) The number one thing that stops people from learning
2) How to embrace the discomfort that comes from learning
3) Just how long it takes to learn coding, anyhow
About Ryan
Ryan Carson is the CEO and Founder of Treehouse, where their mission is to bring effective, valuable and accessible technology education to everyone so they can change their lives and change the world.
Items Mentioned in this Show:
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- Ryan’s business: Treehouse
- Website: Codecademy
- Book: Ego is The Enemy by Ryan Holiday
- Book: Grit by Angela Duckworth
- Book: How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie
- Book: Speed of Trust by Franklin Covey
- System: Bullet Journal
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast, the show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at work. |
| 0:10.0 | Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money. |
| 0:14.0 | With your host, Pete McKitis. |
| 0:16.0 | Hello and thanks so much for joining us here for episode |
| 0:23.7 | 272 with Ryan Carson. I think you'll love this chat with Ryan because one |
| 0:28.5 | he's just a fun guy and two he has seen a lot of learners learned a lot of things and has some insights into what makes |
| 0:35.9 | learning happen and how that can be optimized. |
| 0:39.4 | What you expect of your own experience and some comforting perspectives along the way. |
| 0:43.2 | So you'll learn one, the number one thing that prevents people from learning. |
| 0:47.1 | Two, how to embrace the discomfort that comes from learning. |
| 0:50.8 | And three, just how long it takes to learn coding anyway. |
| 0:54.0 | So if you want to check out the show notes, the transcript, or the links to items that we've referenced, |
| 0:58.0 | it's over to all-sum at your job.com slash F-272. |
| 1:02.0 | And while you're at also at your job |
| 1:03.0 | dot com, I hope you'll check out some of our cool things. |
| 1:06.0 | One cool thing at point you to two is the 10 days to winning at work |
| 1:08.6 | email course, which takes a collection of the most actionable bite-sized nuggets I share in my enhanced thinking |
| 1:16.8 | collaboration training programs which tend to slash on average about 86 minutes of wasted time per person per week out of there. So those are kind of |
| 1:25.8 | condensed digested and put in a fun little email to read once a day for 10 days over |
| 1:31.1 | at awesome at your job.com. Now here is Ryan's story. |
| 1:34.5 | Ryan Carson is the CEO and founder of Treehouse |
| 1:37.0 | where their mission is to bring effective, valuable, and accessible technology education |
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