How to Learn New Things Quickly
Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats
Wes Bos
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 2 May 2018
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Scott and Wes talk about how they learn new things quickly. Scott also tells a crazy story about his weekend.
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Show Notes
2:00
- Scott recounts his crazy story about getting Lymphangitis
8:30
- Know your learning type
- videos, blogs, docs, source
- no right or wrong way
15:00
- Foundational Skills
23:00
- Narrow your focus
- Should you learn Redux with React?
- blurring skills hurts future progress
- don't learn too many things at once
26:00
- Get excited
- try to reclaim your initial excitement
- flow happens when you are excited
- pick projects around hobbies
- Star wars sucks
33:00
- Grind Time
- write code first ask questions later
- break shit
- Submit to yourself that you are going to build this 3-4 times
- iteration driven development
- quality from quantity
- use smarter people
- snippet libs
- style guides
40:00
- Immersion
- follow every kind of media you can
- put things on in the background
- permeate into your brain
××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ×××
- Wes: Crushing It Book
- Wes: Crushing It AudioBook
- Scott: Popmotion Pose
Shameless Plugs
1:00:00
- Scott comes out of nowhere with a story about TEA!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Syntax, the podcast with the tastiest web development treats out there. |
| 0:06.0 | Strap yourself in and get ready. |
| 0:08.0 | Here is Scott Tolinsky and West Boss. |
| 0:10.4 | Welcome to Syntax. Thanks for checking out the podcast with the tastiest web development treats. |
| 0:16.0 | My name is West Boss and with me as always is Scott Tolinsky. |
| 0:21.0 | Today we're going to be talking all about learning. How do you learn quickly? How do you pick up new topics in this ever changing fast-paced industry? |
| 0:29.5 | Being able to be a quick learner is probably a super invaluable skill. So we're going to be going through all that. |
| 0:35.8 | Today we're sponsored by Netify and Fluent Conference. We'll talk a little bit more about both of those companies part way through the episode. |
| 0:44.0 | However, Scott just got back from San Francisco and I'm told he has an amazing story to tell |
| 0:49.8 | us or maybe not an amazing yeah interesting story so how you doing first of all oh I've |
| 0:57.1 | had I've had better 24-hour periods of time in my life I'm just gonna go and say that |
| 1:02.2 | because first off the first |
| 1:05.6 | half of my trip to San Francisco was incredible. I had a great time. I thought I |
| 1:10.7 | killed my talk at Zite Day. |
| 1:13.4 | The whole thing was great. |
| 1:15.2 | Everyone's talks were great. |
| 1:16.5 | Zite Day overall was amazing. |
| 1:18.3 | It was just a great experience. |
| 1:20.3 | So after that, there was an after party, whatever, I went to a friend's place to hang out for a little bit, a guy I've known since the University of Michigan, and so I had taken the Uber home right or a |
| 1:35.6 | lift home and noticed my my thumb is like aching a little bit and I'm just |
| 1:40.1 | thinking okay that's sort of weird maybe I hit it and I didn't notice it. |
| 1:43.8 | So didn't think anything of it. |
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