Learning How to Learn

I have always valued the importance of learning how to learn or how to teach yourself. This concept is much more valuable than learning a specific skill by rote memorization. When I teach a PowerShell class, I must ensure you know how to teach yourself. First, it is impossible to teach you everything about PowerShell in a single class, nor can you memorize everything PowerShell can do. You need to understand how PowerShell works and how to teach yourself.

As IT Pros, we are often asked to learn new tools and technologies. These tools might have a PowerShell angle, like Azure or AWS. But I want to caution you against jumping directly to the PowerShell tools. I think there is a better approach to learning something new. These ideas can be applied to just about anything new you need to learn.

Everything I want to cover is merely my opinion. However, it is based on 25 years of teaching IT Pros and witnessing how people learn, especially adult learners.