Putting structure and systems around anything makes for sustainability, consistency, and completion. In your tech career transition, especially when you are self-learning, you will need to put structure around your learning if you want to be consistent to see it through till the end.
What Is Structure?
A structure in this context means putting systems or routines in place to achieve a particular goal.
A system is a set of repeatable activities established to produce an expected or desired outcome. It is a routine intentionally created to accomplish a clear goal.
The role learning plays in your tech career transitioning is foundational because knowledge is at the heart of your transition. You have to structure your learning because there are many resources available. There is also a tendency to be overwhelmed and stop your learning halfway.
You can use the word system and structure interchangeably.
3 Benefits of Structuring Your Learning
It Makes Your Learning Easier
Building systems around your learning helps you reduce the stress of repeatedly thinking or planning how to complete the course or learning resource. The time used to continually plan the completion can be channeled into something of more value.
When production occurs in a manufacturing company, they don’t think of how to create a replica of the next product because there is a system to ensure mass production.
In the same vein, building systems will save you the stress of planning execution time and time again.
Make your learning easier and more sustainable by creating a routine around it.
It Will Help You Crush Your Goals
You might have many goals to achieve on your tech transition journey. Some people find it hard to stay through the process to achieve their goals. As much as being disciplined is necessary, the subject of building a system around your learning might be the hack you need to crush your goal.
Let’s take a practical example of a person who wants to read a book of 700 pages. If the person wants to read it in 100 days, roughly three months, they might have to read seven pages every day for the next three months.
The example above is a typical system. Yes, it’s that simple.
It Will Help You Think Deeply And Create A Workable Plan
Building systems around your learning requires that you see things from a broader perspective. It allows you to use your mind to process thoughts, possibilities, and scenarios and develop a strategy, routine, or system that can work for you.
Building a system around your learning is custom-made. There is no one size fit for all. You have to think through what works for you carefully.
If you want to take a course that will take 32 hours to complete, you have to consider the time in the day/week that you can consistently utilize until you finish it. If you can give 2 hours, three times a week, it will take about six weeks to complete the course. Whatever the case, you have to think deeply and create a system that works for you, or else it won’t work.
I encourage you to pause and put a structure around what you are currently learning.
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