3/7/2025

Improving my Learning Process

Hello!   As for my first blog post I decided to delve into mind for as how it works...

How I come to approach learning has always been at the back of my mind, and as ive started to really dial in these past few months after having a few epiphanies on how my psyche handles situations; I've come to realize many things.

I-I... I realized subconsciously that not only my studying process was messed up... My brain itself was not thinking properly. I wont get into to much details as it is quite embarrassing, but to keep it short lets just say my bandwidth is no longer bottlenecked.

Getting back on track I wanted to discuss the studying aspect of things, and seeing how I just created a website from scratch (HTML & CSS) I'll use that as an example.

To start things off, how I learn stuff is very hectic; it has improved, as i said earlier, but during writing this blog post I wanted to refine it by laying out foundation, uplifting the process completely.


Setting up this workflow I want to take a look at this diagram as it explains a lot about how this whole process works as I list down the three (E)s.

The diagram starts at "Explore", at this phase I take the liberty to use all forms of studying I can get a topic on. Taking this stance on studying at first allows me to "EXPLORE" all forms of the topic without fear of leaving anything out.


During the "Explore" phase I will mainly use Youtube and a search engine to really ask the hard hitting questions to set me on the right track. This will usually lead me to Youtube, the usual video sharing service of my choice due to the large volume of content on the site.

For the example I'll be using this youtube playlist by LearnCode.academy. This was my starting point for learning how to code in HTML, CSS, and buying/hosting my domain. Starting from here I watched the series of tutorials, and used this as the base for my learning.

As I watched, I started to implement my knowledge into the next phase which is "Expand", where I basically start to practice what I've learned.

While I'm on the "Expand" phase I go back and forth between the "Explore" phase also, using the knowledge I obtain from studying, and applying to my project, this way I'm able to stay engaged with what I'm working with.


Now before I move on to the next phase Its time to introduce bookmarks, and notes. These are critical tools for keeping this workflow in place, and are used very frequently. I use bookmarks for safe keeping of people/knowledge I obtain, but dont necessarily keep them forever, as if I confidently learned everything I needed from such website I can discard it.

This practice is also something I partially treat notes with; the thing is that this idea is only applied to short term goals I want to achieve. I mainly use physical notes as they are something more tangible causing them to be more in my center of attention. Other then that the other main focus with notes is plotting out knowledge/workflows, like in this blog post.

Moving on, last, but not least is "Enhance" this phase is the clean up phase. This part uses notes and bookmarks to full potential, by using more structured resources you might find, and use them as a bounce back to the next level of study.

For example I was using the LearnCode.academy Youtube playlist as my starting point but I "ENHANCE" by using this book by Jon Duckett recommended to me by MMaker (thx MMaker).

After that you repeat the cycle going back to "Explore" phase. Although this may be cycle the phases can be used interchangeably through out the whole process, using drawing as an example; you may find yourself going back and forth between "Explore" & "Expand" as your still making progress this way, through means of drawing anything in general as repetition, instead of a strict course to follow by through means of the phase of "Enhance".

And thats all I have to share, if you read this all I thank you. I hope you enjoy my website! I put much love & care into making this so far, and have high hopes for anybody viewing it.