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How To Learn Things — Aishwarya Khanduja

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Today I had a call with a mentee of mine. As he is working to build breadth in his skillset, he asked me, “How do you learn things?” This piece details the essence of my response to him. Learning how to learn is important, but optimizing how you learn things is more important. How can you shorten your feedback loops? This is an obvious one – the reason why I’m doing 50 days of writing is to learn 50 things. Writing to learn and think is scientifically proven and effective. I have a long list of things I am curious about. But learning is more than just choosing a subject – it’s about asking a question. What question is on your mind? Try to answer that question in your writing. Some things you learn by doing. I wanted to learn how to do 3D modeling. The question in my mind was “How do I build digital experiences?” Since I work in the field of computational pathology, I decided to make a 3D rendering of histology data (whole slide images). At this point, all I had was a question. I didn’t

How To Learn Things - Aishwarya Khanduja 04/08/23 How To Learn Things on curiosity, building, failing, questioning, introspecting Today I had a call with a mentee of mine. As he is working to build breadth in his skillset, he asked me, “How do you learn things?” This piece details the essence of my response to him. Learning how to learn is important, but optimizing how you learn things is more important. How can you shorten your feedback loops? 1. Write This is an obvious one – the reason why I’m doing 50 days of writing is to learn 50 things. Writing to learn and think is scientifically prove

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