🤫 Whisper #22: Log your learning
Write it down. Be specific. Bask in your cognitive gains.
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Whisper #22
Logging your learning
I have a 6 month-old baby who learns simple things at an extraordinary pace.
An example is this recent milestone: learning to pass objects from one hand to another 🫱🧸🫲
Another example was when he learned how to balance his body while seated and reaching forward to grab a toy.
Both times, my spouse and I delighted at the new competency and showered our baby with congratulations. We love celebrating every win, every new competency, and every new learning as we see it happening.
I thought to myself, “Wouldn’t it be great if we gave ourselves as much credit for learning small things?”
This thought set me out to try this new experiment: logging my small-win daily learnings.
“Wouldn’t it be great if we gave ourselves credit for learning small things?”
I grabbed a white steno pad and a pen, and I started logging what I learned each day.
Some days it’s a whole 8x11 page; other days, it’s two bullets with concepts strung together with arrows, ie: IMG → MIPI → NoC→ DRAM
At the end of each week, during my weekly winddown, I review all the learning logs.
Skimming the logs reinforces the learning and commits it to memory, and it makes me feel incredible to celebrate my cognitive evolution 🎉