Self-Study
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Look up college course reading lists.
Find the top performers in the field and study them.
Take advantage of resources provided by public and university libraries in your area, such as free access to Lynda.com and academic databases.
Use a service like Beeminder or StickK to commit to putting in the effort.
Have a public place where you publish regular updates on your progress. (Beemind this, too!)
Take and publish notes.
Rank potential topics based on criteria
Practical. Will what I learn be immediately applicable?
Forward-looking. Will what I learn move me towards the work I want to be doing in the future?
Valuable. Will people pay me to do what I learn?
Synergetic. Will what I learn complement what I already know?
Clear goals
What do I want to be able to do by the end of each course of self-study? Make it concrete and measurable.
Study the experts
Most influential books on the topic
Material by the most influential experts on the topic
Material used in the best courses on the topic
Capture
Take notes on reading
Accountability
Create Beeminder goals specific to the current course of self-study
Post updates to a thread on the Beeminder forum
Deliverables
Course outline
Reading notes
Chapter summaries
Book summaries
Final project
GitBook
Notion
Roam
GoodReads
Lynda.com
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