Feedback is one of the most important principles of effective learning.
Without knowing if you're learning the right thing, you might as well not put in the effort.
🧵 A thread on how to get feedback while learning.
Without knowing if you're learning the right thing, you might as well not put in the effort.
🧵 A thread on how to get feedback while learning.
What's feedback when learning?
Simply put, it's any information you get about your performance relative to your learning goal.
Feedback helps you to adjust your approach, however slightly, so you're more likely to reach your learning objective.
Simply put, it's any information you get about your performance relative to your learning goal.
Feedback helps you to adjust your approach, however slightly, so you're more likely to reach your learning objective.
Without feedback, you'd often waste your time.
It's impossible to learn without feedback. If you don't know what direction you're moving in, you could become directionless.
While directionless learning can be fun, we're talking about effective learning here.
It's impossible to learn without feedback. If you don't know what direction you're moving in, you could become directionless.
While directionless learning can be fun, we're talking about effective learning here.
The best way to gather feedback is to get it from teachers.
Good teachers are like guides, showing you what's possible and how to get there. Along the way, teachers give you feedback so you know if you're on the right track or not.
Use teachers as your main feedback tool.
Good teachers are like guides, showing you what's possible and how to get there. Along the way, teachers give you feedback so you know if you're on the right track or not.
Use teachers as your main feedback tool.
By testing yourself you can get feedback without teachers.
After learning something new, close your notes and try to explain it to yourself. Better yet, write it down. Then, check if you were correct.
By drawing from memory and checking your answers, you learn better.
After learning something new, close your notes and try to explain it to yourself. Better yet, write it down. Then, check if you were correct.
By drawing from memory and checking your answers, you learn better.
Another way to gather feedback is by practicing in public.
Think of something to create with your new knowledge, and give it away. When others see what you're doing, they're able to provide feedback.
Practicing in public is fun and accelerates learning.
Think of something to create with your new knowledge, and give it away. When others see what you're doing, they're able to provide feedback.
Practicing in public is fun and accelerates learning.
Once you have some footing in a domain, another great way to gather feedback is by teaching others.
You can test yourself by writing, but you won't know for sure if your explanations make sense until you try to teach them to others.
That's the moment you know if you grok it.
You can test yourself by writing, but you won't know for sure if your explanations make sense until you try to teach them to others.
That's the moment you know if you grok it.
Practice and teach in public.
Start a blog, or if that's too much hassle, write articles for your company intranet or platforms like Medium and Quora.
Not only will you open yourself up to feedback, but you also get to establish yourself as an expert over time.
Start a blog, or if that's too much hassle, write articles for your company intranet or platforms like Medium and Quora.
Not only will you open yourself up to feedback, but you also get to establish yourself as an expert over time.
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