Application of knowledge
72/300. If only everything we learned made sense
It’s one thing to learn a skill, it’s another thing to know how to apply it. Its something I struggled with early on. Learning social media management was not the problem, the main problem was actually practicing what I’d learnt.
Its why anyone who wants you to advance will encourage you to practice and practice and practice. They’d say create mock portfolios.
The transfer of knowledge from theory to practice is not quite simple. Questions like, "Where am I applying further maths now?" is unfortunately very valid. Because it’s one thing to learn further maths but it’s another thing to recognize it in a realistic context and to know how to bring it to life.
I’d always say I understood best when I’m able to see a life representation of what I’d been taught. Unfortunately, education was not built in that way. Education is a whole bunch of theories. Curriculums that end up not serving you and test and examples that do little to your life. Dramatically still, some teachers would give you '1+1=2' as an example and ask you to find the relative of x if y was single as an exam.🙂 Imagine teaching definitions of the lower limb alone and asking you what a condition is called if they brachial plexus was twisted mid-lateral and blah blah blah. (PTSD people)
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Economics was boring but it was still one subject I understood very well and passed it even if I always almost dozed off each class and this was because the teacher applied directness to her teachings. I understand demand and supply, scale of preference because it wasn’t all theory. She’d make reference to the school canteen seller or the woman selling biscuits and sweets along your street. She taught in a way I was always looking forward to buy something not for what I was buying but to see her teachings come to life.
They say practice makes perfect but what if you are not even sure what you’re practicing?
I’m learning that sometimes I just need to go the extra mile if I really want to know stuff. Being a genius is not random stuff. I’ve also learnt that it’s not enough to know a skill, and submit CVs and portfolios. I’m learning to look for the exact skills needed for the job I want and practice the current models, softwares, and tools. Standing out is not exactly genius work, it just needs practicing the right skills.
But again. Practice. Practice. Practice. Less theory, less talk. Figure out how to practice, figure out how to learn. It makes a whole world of difference
