You can gather a tremendous amount of knowledge from the Internet. When I first got interested in kung fu, the first thing I did was get online and research the tens of different styles taught in the West. I learned a lot by perusing numerous websites dedicated to Chinese martial arts. But what really made [...]
I am taking a course on developing graphical user interfaces, and the topics we cover span from HTML and CSS to PHP and MySQL. Let’s pause for a bit. These abbreviations sound awfully geeky so I’m warning you, but once again, the fundamental principles apply, and these examples can be applied to any other subjects [...]
When we adopt something new into our lives, like a hobby or a new skill, everything seems fresh and fascinating. We enthuse over it. We believe that it is something that we want to keep doing, and something we want to master. We get overly excited to pursue it at the beginning, but as the [...]
Studying is a subject a lot of us dread. We’ve all been through some form of schooling in our lives, and know how uninteresting and monotonous cramming information into our brain can be. I remember hating the home economics class back in junior high school because of all the cleaning we had to do. Plus, [...]
I just recently redesigned Self-Learner from scratch (I hope you like it), and I learned many practical things about web design–particularly about CSS—that I probably wouldn’t have learned as quickly had I not done the redesign. Doing things without spending too much time on learning the techniques first is a practice I highly recommend to [...]
Self-Learner is a blog about self-education and self-improvement based lifestyle design. Goal? To become the best "version" of yourself, and feel excited to jump out of your bed every morning.