Tag: Learning

Two Questions

Maid of the Mist

Today we’d love to ask you two questions.

The first one is for fun. The second one is more serious.

First: if you could have any skill or knowledge, what would it be?

Anything goes here, as long as it’s humanly possible. No superpowers. If you think x-ray vision might be humanly possible, that’s fine, but please explain why in your answer.

There is an inquisitive thing inside me that yearns to understand everything about everything. It wants so see and do and experience everything. To follow it's curiosity where ever it leads and to spread a hunger for the same.

Next: what specific skills or knowledge are you working to gain right now?

List up to three if you’re working on multiple things at once.

Right now I am working on regaining lost knowledge. I set my technology inquisition aside a few years ago and I want to restart my journey. I am currently enrolled in an intense pen testing course that I am hoping will force me to regain what I had lost and prepare for further adventures. The reward for completing this training is that I can become an Offensive Security Certified Professional.

I am learning in other areas as well. I have had some setbacks but I am well on my way to completing my journey in The Arcanum. The goal is to raise my level of mastery with my photography, to be expert enough to produce art that can be framed and sold.

Then, here’s a follow-up question (and something for you to ponder):

If your answers to question #1 and #2 are the same, congrats on “walking the walk.” Do you think your sights are set high enough?

If your answers are different, why aren’t you working towards what you answered in question #1?

Thanks for sharing, I can’t wait to hear your answers.

Also, if you answer the questions, please share this post with a friend or on Twitter or Facebook. We’d love to get as many answers to this question as possible with your help.

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I think my answers are in alignment. Do you?

Just enough to be dangerous

Ken Lockwood Gorge

Expert Enough is about getting good at things. It’s about wanting to learn more, do more and be more. It’s about unlocking the potential inside, and reaping the enormous benefits waiting for those who actually follow through.

But becoming good at things is becoming a lost art.

Most of us could use more doing and less consuming. To acquire new skills, live an interesting life and do adventurous things, you have to get good at putting in the effort it takes to actually do those things.

Here you’ll find tips, how-to’s, interviews, case studies and more on all kinds of topics from psychology to technology, from food to fitness, from inspiration to perspiration. All aimed at helping you learn more, do more, and be more.Expert Enough

Time to stop procrastinating and start deliberately start practicing the skills I need to remain viable, relevant and expert enough. I've started on two journey's simultaneously. Perhaps I will burn out trying and fail miserably. I am enrolled in the Arcanum, working my way towards completing Sphere 1 of my photographic journey. I am also enrolled in a course designed me to teach me professional penetration testing skills and to become a Offensive Security Certified Professional. Both requires lots of deliberate practice.

Encouraging learning

Am I Doing Homeschooling Right? January 8, 2015 In Hacking School (John Saddington)

I want my daughter to experience life in a much larger and broader sense. And, I want to invite her to see how her father works and the people that he meets and the things that he gets to do in an environment that is creative and open.

John's post struck a chord with me. No, I'm not homeschooling my kids. But the photos of Roenne sitting at the MacBook with her over-sized headphones suddenly had me thinking about my daughter, Kiran.

She has suddenly discovered she likes programming. This from a child who told me on many occasions when I tried to get her and her brother interested in my Raspberry Pi that she had no interest at all in programming.

Now, she's gushing about what's she's doing with HTML and JavaScript. I don't know why she's changed her mind, but I see her sitting at the iMac tapping and clicking away on code.org's web site.

Last night we had a conversation about Ruby, Python and Java and how these languages get their names. Her teacher says she talks about my Raspberry Pi and me all the time. I'm just glad she's interested, and I want to encourage her. Hopefully, I won't screw this up. For now, I will continue to engage her in conversations to find out what she likes about coding.