Adult Learning: the 5 step framework

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🐈‍⬛ Life

Hi friend! How’s the week going for you?

I’ve been travelling this week! I’m visiting Luke in Arkansas and Ken is also here. It’s been absolutely amazing finally meeting them in person. They showed me that anything can be fried eg. mushrooms, okra, cornbread, and apparently also ice cream. Also just being around them has made me 100x more creative and ambitious. 🔥🔥

Luke’s place!

(๑*ᗜ*) Anime

I finished watching Nagi-Asu: A Lull in the Sea. HMMMM the art and themes are compelling, but the interpersonal relationships and actual concerns that the characters had were quite oversimplified. Also, the resolutions were rather disappointing (I am anime connoisseur now).

I also started watching Remake Our Life! I’m on episode 3 and it’s looking promising!

I like that it’s not the usual high school kids trope.

Remake Our Life is about this 28-year-old guy that got a business degree but eventually leaves his office job to pursue a career in video game design and ends up being laid off and unemployed. He thinks a lot about how his life would have been different if he didn’t chicken out of going to art school instead of business school.

Then WOW he suddenly gets to be 18 again and this time he chooses art school! 🎨What I think is really interesting is the paradigm of playing life safe (a business degree) vs. going all out on something risky (art school). He also gets to meet his future idols and witness their struggles and how much doubt they also had in themselves before becoming famous.

Tentatively highly recommend!

📖 Books

I finished The Body Keeps the Score but tbh didn’t read much else. Ken recommended This is Your Mind on Plants so that’s what I’m going to read next. It’s about how humans have used plants throughout time and especially our relationship with psychotropic plants eg. caffeine, opium, and psychedelics. If it seems interesting to you, then do pick it up and we can read it together this week! 🤗

humans have been using psychoactive drugs since the dawn of time.

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🌻 Learning & Productivity

Consistent self-learning aka. adult learning is life-transforming and it’s just such a shame most people never figure it out and essentially stop learning when they get out of school. After I finally figured out how to consistently self-study and apply what I learn to my own life, it felt like a ladder suddenly appeared and I just have to keep climbing up, one step at a time, to reach greater heights.

Tina and the beanstalk??

ANYWAYS, after I finally figured out how to adult learn, it literally transformed me from someone that had 10+ unfinished online courses and self-study plans to someone that’s learned how to trade, how to manage my finances to finally work towards my goals, how to start and run a business, and now how to code a blockchain. I’m not saying I’m a master at any of these but I’d say I’m at least on my way to intermediate IN 1 YEAR!!!

The framework is:

1. have a goal and subgoals

2. exploit what pushes your buttons

3. adopt a low-bar mindset

4. implement accountability

5. track leading and lagging metrics

a Study with Tina livestream for accountability and metric tracking!

I’m not going to go into too much detail here since this video I made does it much better (also I make Naruto analogies that I am very proud of). 🍥

There are so many things I want to learn and to keep learning! I’m pretty deep into the blockchain stuff now and can’t wait to work on more projects. I also would love to learn Japanese so I can finally watch anime without subs lol.

Do let me know in the comments how you view adult learning! Also, what are you learning now/what do you want to learn next?? 🖊️

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👨‍💻 Coding

My progress on the blockchain course is a bit slow this week due to travelling but we’re still chugging along, which is what matters.❤️

I do need to work on sleeping before 12 though…

I learned more about transactions when I ran into not knowing how to do the transactions part of the capstone project. As I mentioned in the last newsletter, I prefer a reverse-engineered learning style, which I find is faster and more relevant.

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💻 Today’s coding challenge (SQL/Python)

Find the popularity percentage for each user on Meta/Facebook. The popularity percentage is defined as the total number of friends the user has divided by the total number of users on the platform, then converted into a percentage by multiplying by 100. Output each user along with their popularity percentage. Order records in ascending order by user id. The 'user1' and 'user2' column are pairs of friends.

Head on over here to answer the question!

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PS: Reply to this email about what you’d like to see in future editions of Boop’s Keyboard! I’m super new to writing a newsletter and I know there’s a lot for me to learn. ALL constructive feedback is greatly appreciated :)

-Tina