hi everyone all right so today I'm going to show you the exact study routine that I used to learn cloud computing and uh what I used to kind of learn anything really I consider myself kind of a busy person I try to you know hit the gym be social uh but I still find time to learn new things right I've taught myself bash I've taught myself python Donnet so many different Azure services with this system that I use and back I originally kind of set it up back in like 20 17 when I was first learning in cloud and I spent like 6 months studying for the AWS certified developer associate certification and I learned that stuff really in depth spent six months almost two hours every single day and that unlocked a lot of opportunities for me I think it's very unheard of now for someone to spend that much time with one Cloud certification like if you go on LinkedIn people are passing these things like week after week after week I would encourage you to not care about that and just you know strive to be someone who wants depth in the stuff that they're learning and this routine really helped me for that and I'm going to show you to with all that being said hi I'm GPS I do Cloud things at Microsoft here on YouTube don't forget to like And subscribe and comment and welcome to a new video all right so you're going to need a couple of things you're going to need a calendar okay you're going to need a to-do app or a to-do list like a physical list whatever works for you the calendar can be physical too if that's what you want you're going to need somewhere to write down notes handwritten notes are fine or just maybe an app I personally I personally use notion but uh whatever works and then somewhere to synthesize your notes so whether that be like a blog or that could be like a YouTube video or I don't know something like that okay those are the things you're going to need additionally if you are someone who struggles with getting started with things I really like the Pomodoro Technique and you're going to need a timer you can just use your phone for that or uh you can use an actual physical timer I know they sell sell those things too um or if you have a watch you can use your watch and yeah whatever works for you okay so the first thing you're going to do is every day at the beginning of your day you're going to sit down and you're going to spend 10 minutes 10 minutes scheduling this stuff out so you're going to hop into your calendar and I need you to schedule in two study sessions so for there uh for this example I have one from 700 in the morning so this is for tomorrow from 7: to 8: and then from 700 p.m. to it says until 8:00 p.m. but honestly since I have nothing left after that time and uh I usually go to bed around 10: to 11:00 I can pretty much use anything after 7:00 if I want to spend 1 Hour 2 Hour 3 hours right but at the bare minimum I would like you to spend uh two hours now there's this book by Cal Newport called Deep work that says that you really only need 90 minutes of deep work every day to really learn something highly recommend you read that book but it's also something that's really worked well for me as long as I spent two hours of deep focused work on whatever topic it is that I'm trying to tackle it pretty much works well for me so that's why I recommend it now I also recommend dividing these sessions into two different ones instead of one longer one for two reasons one it makes it easier to schedule we all have lives where we have to do stuff outside of studying right you may have kids you may be at school you may be working a 9 to-5 you may be working a full-time job that has like crazy hours I know for me there's a lot I have a lot going on so scheduling them in our two hour session two sessions of one hour at the bare minimum two hours total works great for me additionally there is this talk by Barbara Oakley called learning how to learn and it is fantastic I will link it in the description this is exactly the reason why I saw this Ted talk like years ago and this is the exact reason why I came up with this study routine and it speaks about the different modes that your brain has so you have diffuse mode and then you have Focus mode so when you're in Focus mode you're actively thinking about a topic actively working through material and then diffuse mode is when it's sort of in the back of your mind but when your when your brain is in diffused mode it's kind of creating those connections uh and you're giving it space to kind of create those connections of the stuff that you've learned so when you come back to focus mode it's like you've you've learned stuff kind of throughout the day but you need to do it consistently for that to work it's not like you just think about something for like 5 minutes and then suddenly you know a lot about it a couple of hours so this is why this routine of breaking it up into two sessions like this works great for me and which is why I usually recommend it okay anyway so you schedule out your sessions there what you're going to do next is you're going to get your material I love books text material is just the best way for me to learn but whatever works for you and you're going to try to kind of like you know map out what you can get done in that first 1hour session we're just going to focus on that first onh hour session okay so luckily this book Linux basic for hackers is the book I recommend everyone who wants to get a foundation and Linux go through so then for example let's say we're today I want to learn chapter 2 text manipulation and I look here at the contents and I see viewing files finding and I see like it's about it's about you know couple what we're looking at 10 pages and me personally I know that I could get through this in an hour so I'm going to say you know what I'm going to cover session one I'm just going to cover the chapter chapter 2 and I'm going to write it in my to-do list here perfect now if I think I can only get through like viewing files filtering text with GP and using set toine and replace completely fine I'm just going to uh select those put them in my to-do list and say I'm going to cover these chapters for or these topics for my session one if you feel like you can cover more in that first hour awesome less it's really up to you and this is this is just for yourself you're not racing anyone this is again just for you okay now I said Focus just on outlining what you can do for session one because there are different purposes for each one of these okay as you are working through your session one you're going to be taking notes these aren't the exact notes that I took when covering this chapter I wish I had them I don't I don't know what happened maybe I'll find them and I'll share them but if I don't the the the purpose of showing you these notes I was going through a different book called uh how Linux works and when I go through the that that first session it's all about deep focus going through the material getting Hands-On doing any exercises and my not tiing is not supposed to get in the way it's more so anything that I want to further dive into or further synthesize for my session two I write it down here these are kind of like bullet points not complete sentences not complete ideas just stuff in the material that I want to highlight and the not taking is not does not need to get in the way a lot of people focus on like oh I just read the sentence then I need to make an exact note how do I make it super pretty like that gets in a way you only have 60 Minutes of deep work time for this material do as much deep work as you can for those 60 minutes all right great so then your session one is done you spend your hour learning the material going through everything if you couldn't go through everything that's fine just copy uh what you you couldn't go through and put it in your to-do list for the next day and then the next day you know what you need to cover all right completely fine so now you move into your second session right so I'm inan like it's 700 p.m. it's time for my next session what I'm going to do is I'm going to grab my notes and I'm going to synthesize them which means I'm going to make them into something that makes sense and that I could share or I could later reference so for example when I was going through the actually let me see if I have the I'm going to click on Linux this is my blog these are my synthesized notes from going through the Linux basic for hackers book let me see okay here an intro to text manipulation in Linux these These are notes that I created from my scratchpad notes or from my throwaway notes and you can see I created a blog post right and it says here almost everything is a text file Linux and you can read through it and you it's a blog post that you know it's legible and that's what synthesizing means it means you grab your knowledge that you gained from going through the material you grab the notes that you created and together you create something that other people can gain Insight from or that you can share or you can just stash it away you don't have to share it but it's something that you can later reference that um you know it's in like human language not your your chicken scratches or not your scratch Pad notes okay then you're going to spend that second session just working on creating this it does doesn't have to be super long like you can see I have a lot of screenshots in here um I have a not too many words but it hey it outlines what I learned that morning okay and ideally go for something that you can create in an hour if you end up spending like an hour and a half or whatever on this part that's fine because you are still reinforcing the stuff that you learned in your earlier session and I also find that breaking it up this way is less fatigue and and I don't know I just really love working in like session one session two Focus mode throughout the day your brain is in diffuse mode and you're back into Focus mode but you're not doing the same that you were doing earlier you're building and reinforcing on that by creating these type of synthesized notes so this is what works great for me once I'm done with material I'll spend some time building something or uh maybe creating like a longer blog post or a longer video on it but really when it comes to just working through the material and really learning this is the routine that I use I think for this specific example Linux basic for hackers I ended up taking the Linux Essentials certification at the end and I think it took me like a month to get through all the material uh but for other things I've gone through like python books I've gone through umnet books I've gone through like a bunch of azure tutorials and stuff like that uh I remember I did this also for when I was learning Docker go through the material create notes and then at the end of like usually takes me it depends on what it is a week two weeks and then I'll go and I'll build something put a project up on GitHub or whatever but the day-to-day stuff the like you know actually learning this is how I do it so let me know if you like the system I'll link a bunch of resources in the description that could help you further understand learning how to learn which I think is so important uh and if you give it a try let me know how it works for you uh and that's it for this video thanks so much for watching and I'll see you in the next one