How to Enlist in University U.
If you're looking to learn a new skill (literally any skill) let me break it down for you.
Now, you’re probably wondering.. “What the fuck are you talking about Micah”.
Let me clear this up for you real quick.
This isn’t for doctors, dentists, any sort of academic type career - so let’s rest that case here.
Now for everyone else trying to start some sort of business if that being a designer, developer, sketch artist, literally anything.
I’ll go ahead and introduce a formula I learnt from a book I’m currently reading called Creative Calling by Chase Jarvis.
It goes like this:
D E A R
Deconstruct.
Emulate.
Analyze.
Repeat.
Essentially, this is breaking down a strategy plan on how you could learn a skill by paying attention to someone pretty high up in the industry of your choice.
So, for this example — I’ll go ahead and use someone that I heavily look up to.
Deconstruct
So, I’m a designer who wants to run the path of learning multiple mediums and bringing those skills to apply to my job.
Here’s a designer that I believe does that.
I did my research within publications such as interface lovers, to learn more on his background and just how he became who he was (also I was fortunate enough to have plenty of 1 on 1 time with him) .
Literally taking bullet points of how he learned certain skills like development and more and just mapping them out as a potential route to grow.
Emulate
Within this step you’ll be emulating the moves they make.
This required me to do carve out time for training.
Create 3-4 pieces of UI practice work throughout the week.
Begin working on a small coding project here and there (exploring and refining)
Start to engage within the community of designers near me (friends and just immersing myself in community.
Analyze
This goes hand in hand with some of the steps I mentioned about, as well as this may just overall sound creepy.
Analyze them and their lifestyle – take certain aspects that you appreciate into your life.
Repeat
Repeat, find a way to bring these into your life on the daily.. repeat repeat repeat repeat.
Don’t worry so much about the end goal but more about your habits and how you show up on the daily.
Anyways,
With love as always.