How to Learn New Things Quickly

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

• Scott recounts his crazy story about getting Lymphangitis

• 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

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1:00:00

• Scott comes out of nowhere with a story about TEA!

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