What's your ideal way of learning? 🤔

I am a 👁 visual AND 👐 kinesthetic learner.

Podcasts 👂 are the worst way to learn for me (I can barely retain 10% 😞).

So my ideal way is to watch 📺/read 📚 & immediately practice at the same time.
Slow 🐢 upfront but can retain much more 🐇.

Funny Fact:
I can concentrate no problem at a noisy cafe for not being an auditory learner.

My ideal way of learning is often I need to find a way to make this work by any means. Really kicks me into focus on whatever topics help me get there.

Ideal or not, but in my experience the best way is to learn is when you get thrown in the deep end with actual problem to figure out.

Just reading or watching videos, sometimes it's good, you can pick up some smaller tips or tricks, that may or may not even be the main point of the article or video, but it could get a bit disheartening to see all this cool stuff and not have an opportunity to implement it in your day-to-day flow.

For me: Reading >> Doing > Hearing >>>>> Watching

I hate videos. And love the people here that tag their posts with #video so I know to avoid it.

I love having a bunch of bookmarks to go through during downtime. Read a few articles, maybe add them to a list of resources to come back to with notes, being able to copy and paste code examples... good stuff!

Making a project is effective, but I feel most comfortable reading about a topic first. Lectures like in university are hit or miss.

It depends of technology and how much I want to go deep in learning it. Sometimes learning by doing is enough.

But, for example, to learn a new programming language/framework I would usually go the following way:

1. Video - Udemy/Pluralsight
2. Book - O'Reilly/Wrox/Apress
3. Creating my own application

1. Question everything - Asking a lot of questions out loud, to myself, and to anyone who will listen
2. Doing - I cannot read about something, I prefer to get stuck in and will happy work into the night (best hours are 10pm - 2am) until I crack it
3. Failing - instead of thinking will this work, I just do it, and the results speak for themselves
4. Teaching - for me a crucial stage is passing on the knowledge, if I can't do that then I haven't really grasped the problem

For me it depends what I want to remember and how complex it is. If it's simple and easy to understand, auditory medium 👂 like podcast is enough for me.

If it's something complex then a visual medium 👀 like articles are enough.

However if there are a lot of steps or processes to remember and understand or a complex concept, then watching videos and doing it once or twice helps me to grasp it well.

Though doing anything practically, at least once, helps me retain things better😃

I think the most ideal way to learn is to have someone next to you guiding you through some material. Next best would be having the ability to ask questions and get immediate feedback.

In either case, it's up to the learner to know they should ask a ton of questions.

I've been studying a lot lately. I had a really good success with videos with people actually doing live coding on projects from start to finish, and me actually coding along with them.

I have to basically watch and do together to make things stick.

The ideal way for me is to imagine a requirement or create new one and start coding it with resources from the internet. I've learnt angularjs, typescript this way and feels like a challenge to conquer