Found a book/course again soooo… blogging!
By: Kyle Harris
Tags: Learning And Development, Self Improvement

I didn’t even look at the date of the (only) blog post I’ve made, but I did scan the first paragraph. It starts with something like “I read a book that said… and so now I’m going to start writing a blog” and then, well, no more blog.

So without further adieu (tried to spell that 4–5 different times which is almost all of the options since the only real choice was how to rearrange the last three letters because if we compute the number of permutations possible for 3 letters… 3! = 6 thanks MathIsFun). Ok apparently some adieu (only two tries that time, practice makes perfect). Anyway, I read a Medium article about skills to learn and writing was one of them.

I also decided to follow the skills recommended mostly in order. I started with the first one, as recommend, about Learning How to Learn and completed the Coursera course with the delightfully cheerful zombie obsessed Barbara Oakley and slightly less cheerful, other guy. I found it had some great nuggets and promptly tried to share some of the study habits and science with my high school aged brother who, to my surprise, wasn’t quite blown away by the epiphany I was forcing on him. But it was good practice for me to help recall and “chunk” some of the topics for myself.

After finishing the Coursera, much like an ADD squirrel I quickly found my next shiny and started reading a new book, Range. However, now I’m circling back to my original intention and to help keep me on track-ish I also decided to buy the SkillUp Blitz Course from Danny Forest. I appreciated the content of his Medium post and so even if I don’t follow through on the course (I WILL FOLLOW THROUGH!), I’m happy to contribute to him.

One thing I’ve noticed about myself is I do not like spending money on digital content of any kind: courses, mobile apps, videos, music, books… I think I just figure that I can find something comparable somewhere else on the internet, but I’ve made a goal to allow, even encourage, myself to spend money on tools and materials for my own personal development. Regularly and without much thought I’ll drop $30 on ordering dinner, but I’ll agonize over buying a book or course that interests me for $10. So I’m going to to try and lighten up and loosen my own purse strings a bit when it comes to my own personal interests and growth (hint to all sellers of self improvement content, I’m a motivated buyer).

Well second skill of 8 Timeless Skills to Learn is Writing and instructions are 30–45 minutes and 300 words. How to get word count on Medium? Google says… https://lmgtfy.app/?q=how+to+get+wordcount+on+medium. Not very helpful.

^ This has the answer though. Highlight all the text and look near the top left of the page, Walla! or is it Vwallah! Never tried to type that before. Part of the reason I’m supposed to do this writing thing is because it helps you define your voice. My voice, or rather my brain, seems to pinball around until it finds a nice hole at which point it will settle in and start to dig until something reminds it it is supposed to be a pinball. My apologies for the terrible analogy and incoherent track I’ve laid.

Ctrl-A, 620 words. More than enough for day 1. Good night voice. Hope you are able to quit running a million miles a minute and relax enough to sleep. Toodles!