How to do Vertical Learning?

Ever thought how learning a new skill is such a disdaining task? Your brain gives you many reasons to not start doing something new. It has its own reason. Everybody is lazy in their own place. Learning a new skill requires your brain to do a lot of work. We call it brainpower. Brain Power is really a word. New skills require your brain to adjust the neural pathways, create new synapses etc. Ehhhh lots of work and it requires a lot of your energy.

The brain actually tricks you into not learning new things so to save its energy and then you are in constant pain of learning a new thing as well as in constant battle with your own brain. Finally, you either give up or get exhausted.

So what's the plan? One thing you could do is to not learn a new thing until and unless it is really a necessity. I know I know you were just shocked enough to read it and now you want to read it all because what the heck I am really saying. But it is true that it is not always necessary to learn a new thing when it is of no use to you.

For example, being a Hindi speaker, learning English is a necessity but I could easily go well in my life without knowing Hiragana in Japanese. Yet learning English could come easy and handy to me but not Japanese.

Being in the Tech field has helped me this trick to not get overwhelmed with tons of technologies that are bombarded every day to IT guys crushing them into fear and stress of learning and learning. I mean just let it go. I have been into the state of nirvana for the past few years and yet I am a successful Software Engineer, Data Scientist and currently learning DevOps and I am a Blogger too (blogger in slow sound because I still write crap).

Well, How I did it? I just created this course right for you where you can become zero to hero in 10 minutes. Buy now just for 1 Million dollar at 99% off and you are all set.

Yeah, I am joking (Yes I have been trying into standup comedies but people just stand up and go. Hard world). Anyways, let's get into some serious stuff. There is a way to learn any new thing and I call it Vertical Learning (Yes it has a name and I coined it).

Vertical learning helps you learn a new thing and deceiving your brain that you are not learning a new thing at all but then you learn. Make fool of your brain before it makes fool of you. But how to do it. There are some pre-requisites for it.

• Don't do, if it is not necessary
• Do, if it is necessary

That's all I could think of and that's all it is. There is a proverb in English

Necessity is the mother of invention

Make something your necessity and you will learn everything to fulfill that necessity.

When this necessity of getting something becomes an obsession, you will learn every possible way to get there without your brain complaining. Obsession gets you going without you getting tired.

It seems good enough but how does it work in the world of ever-changing technologies and how one can get obsessed with learning new stuff? Believe me one can never get that kind of obsession but one can get obsessed with solving any real-world problem with the use of technology and can learn everything that is required in solving it. My obsession with solving real-world stuff has helped me to get a working knowledge of Software Development and Data Science and now I am trying DevOps because it has become a necessity in ongoing projects.

So here are the steps you could follow.

• Find something that is really a problem and needed to be solved.
• Don't limit yourself to learning everything that is required to do it even if it is out of your domain (I learned how GST works when I was creating a product for it)
• Don't push yourself in learning things that are irrelevant.

Thomas Alva Edison might have got the working knowledge of pretty much all the elements and how electricity works in his obsession to create Light Bulb. But learning about all elements and electricity might not be his obsession. He got the knowledge in the path of fulfilling his obsession.

Just sit for some time and relax and think again, are you obsessed with something. What are you doing to fulfill that obsession? Is something limiting you to fulfill it?

Somebody said once that "Sky is the limit" and some people crossed it with their obsession.