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How to self study using MOOCS (Udemy, Coursera, and other online courses) | self study online

Tina Huang 27.05.2021 295 547 просмотров 11 492 лайков обн. 18.02.2026

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Hi friends! In this video, I go in depth on how to self study online using online courses and how to not give up like a third of the way in. If you have bought online courses and just never actuallly finished them, you are not alone. An average of only 10% of people actually finish an online course. And I was the 90% too before I developed and went through the process that I talk about in this video. Be warned, this is a thorough discussion that isn't just tips and tricks - it's going to involve some introspection from you as well. I promise it's worth it though. ______________________________________________________________________ Timestamps 00:00 intro 01:25 step 1 - define your goal 03:57 step 2 - how to choose a good course 04:45 criterium #1 topics 06:02 criterium #2 application 08:41 criterium #3 instructor 09:10 step 3 - execution 09:47 discipline #1 the wildly important 10:03 discipline #2 lead measures 11:32 discipline #3 scoreboard 12:57 discipline #4 cadence of accountability 13:40 how to skip fluff + use mutliple resources 15:18 how to take effective notes 16:32 active recall ______________________________________________________________________ discord: https://discord.gg/5mMAtprshX livestreaming google calendar: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/1?cid=cDBtOGgxOG1waW92bTJxYzdpZmkzNmgwODhAZ3JvdXAuY2FsZW5kYXIuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbQ ______________________________________________________________________ Other videos you might be interested in How I would learn to code (if I could start over): https://youtu.be/MHPGeQD8TvI How to self study technical things: https://youtu.be/_EzmbCuoFcU How to learn data science in 2021: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Axu4tJl8gbM ______________________________________________________________________ Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2UXDak6o7rBm23k3Vv5dww/?sub_confirmation=1 ______________________________________________________________________ Check out my SQL course for data science and tech interviews with 10 mock interviews: https://www.udemy.com/course/sql-for-tech-and-data-science-interviews/?couponCode=0E271958A95489A6BA8C Real SQL interview question walkthrough series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Td-cmLfQ7uU&list=PLVD3APpfd1tuXrXBWAntLx4tNaONro5dA Check out StrataScratch for SQL interview prep: https://stratascratch.com/?via=tina ______________________________________________________________________ About me Hi, my name is Tina and I'm a data scientist at a FAANG company. I was pre-med studying pharmacology at the University of Toronto until I finally accepted that I would make a terrible doctor. I didn't know what to do with myself so I worked for a year as a research assistant for a bioinformatics lab where I learned how to code and became interested in data science. I then did a masters in computer science (MCIT) at the University of Pennsylvania before ending up at my current job in tech :) ______________________________________________________________________ Contact youtube: youtube comments are by far the best way to get a response from me! linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tinaw-h/ email for business inquiries only: hellotinah@gmail.com If you're reaching out through linkedin, please leave a youtube comment just letting me know that you reached out :) ______________________________________________________________________ *The StrataScratch affiliate program give me a small portion of the sales price at no cost to you. I really appreciate your support in helping improve this channel! :) #onlinecourses #moocs #selfstudy #TinaHuang

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0:00 intro 287 сл.
1:25 step 1 - define your goal 568 сл.
3:57 step 2 - how to choose a good course 169 сл.
4:45 criterium #1 topics 308 сл.
6:02 criterium #2 application 577 сл.
8:41 criterium #3 instructor 119 сл.
9:10 step 3 - execution 117 сл.
9:47 discipline #1 the wildly important 60 сл.
10:03 discipline #2 lead measures 332 сл.
11:32 discipline #3 scoreboard 309 сл.
12:57 discipline #4 cadence of accountability 160 сл.
13:40 how to skip fluff + use mutliple resources 375 сл.
15:18 how to take effective notes 285 сл.
16:32 active recall 250 сл.

intro

hey friends how's it going today we're going to talk about my favorite thing after anime cats laying in bed like a degenerate and rice online courses i love online courses i think the introduction of moocs has completely changed the playing field it used to be the only people who could afford to go to elite universities could have access to certain information that allowed them to both better themselves and access certain opportunities of course playing fields are definitely not completely even but with moocs they are far more leveled down it's now completely possible for you to even learn an entire career and get a job just from online courses that are either free or cost as low as 10 i think that's just incredible however just because all of these wonderful resources are out there doesn't mean that people know how to use them effectively in fact on average only 10 of users complete an online course and i would think if you ask how many of those people actually went on to significantly incorporate what they learned in their real day-to-day lives that number is probably even lower as you can see the issue these days is not so much access to information it's your ability to actually learn the information and hopefully do something with it so in this video i'm going to share with you how i self-study using online courses and how to not give up twitter of the way in or even less i'm going to be heavily applying concepts from two my favorite books ultra learning and four disciplines of execution or dx so highly recommend you also check out these books after the video as well

step 1 - define your goal

alright so step one is of course finding an online course right wrong this is usually mistake number one step number one is actually having a clear picture of your end goal or in other words a good reason for learning a new skill and or leveling up your skill set with the online courses people tend to not have very good reasons for doing things and i think you'll be surprised by the answers people would give you when you ask them why they're doing the things that they're doing oftentimes they either don't know have reasons inherited from someone else usually their parents were just clearly haven't thought it through and just default to a generic reason here are some examples of bad reasons tina why do you want to be a doctor my mom told me to why do you want to be a data scientist well making six figures sounds awesome and um i think machine learning sound sounds like a pretty cool job hey to be clear i'm not judging you for wanting money at all in fact that is one of the major reasons why i did a cs masters and chose my career but i just wanted to dig a little bit deeper what you want is probably not just to see a million dollars sitting in your bank account it's what money buys now that is your actual reason how do you envision your life a few years down the line and how does learning this new skill help you achieve that for example my reason for choosing computer science and then data science is freedom intellectual freedom to use my skills and apply them to different industries that i find interesting and of course financial freedom i'm very much into the fire movement and i see this skill set as a way of enabling me to get there now it also doesn't have to be a super grand and outwardly visible reason for example i'm learning trading because i think it's quite thrilling to potentially lose all my money and potentially make a lot of money and i also find a psychology going on the market's just really interesting and one day i also want to learn how to paint because i just always wanted to which i think is a great reason and it's helped okay so i'm going to stop harping on this point but i really encourage you to just think about your reason for trying to learn this new skill even better if you can picture how the skill you're trying to learn will enrich your life in a tangible way so you might ask why is this even important well it's because it serves true crucial purposes in your self studying journey number one is if you have a clear reason and a goal you have a north star to aim for and you're able to customize the online course or courses to achieve your goal more quickly while skipping through things that are relevant to you because after all there is no online course that will just perfectly help you achieve your goals and it is up to you to put together your own syllabus and number two is having a reason and a goal serves as motivation when the abyss stares back at you okay so step number two is finding the

step 2 - how to choose a good course

online course ultra learning gives us a good guideline for how long we should spend on finding the correct resource which is 10 of the time you think it will take for you to go through the entire learning process too many people fall into this trap of analysis paralysis when comparing all the different types of resources there are and not being able to decide between the huge array of online courses to choose from so the tldr here is that you probably wouldn't go wrong with just choosing a course that is rated highly on move platforms like udemy and corsair there's generally good reason for why they're rated highly but if you can't bring yourself to just trust me which is great because you should never trust random people on the internet for all you know i might be a cat i'm here live that's not i'm not a cat so here's my guideline for choosing a good course number one a good course covers the

criterium #1 topics

majority of topics needed to reach your end goal if you absolutely know nothing about the skill you're trying to learn this research phase warrants a decent amount of time in figuring out what it is that you need to learn for example for data science i have a video that covers the topics required for data science and here's another one for coding there are lots of other videos that cover topics like data science and coding and honestly most other topics that you're trying to learn as well it doesn't hurt to check out a few of these videos as well as other resources like blogs and articles from credible sources after doing some research by yourself and compiling a list of topics to study if you can have access to a mentor in the field it'll be good to just run that list by them just to make sure that the topics covered are up to date and are in fact crucial for achieving your end goal quick note about mentors generally for this kind of purpose it's a good idea to choose a mentor that's maybe a couple years further along than you are as opposed to like the ceo or the director or something and the reason for this is because you want someone that is so close to the action and is not too far removed from what's happening in the industry today this is especially through industries that move extremely quickly like tech for example besides the more senior the person is the further they are from where you are now and it can be difficult for them to scope down all the knowledge that they have so yep if you have access to a mentor let them do a quick check of your list my second criterium is arguably not

criterium #2 application

essential but very nice to have and that is integrated projects and applied components built into the course itself this is also what ultra learning refers to as the principle of directness it means to directly apply what you're learning towards your end goal so for example if you're trying to learn how to code it's far better to practice coding than watching someone code on screen the principle of directness also ties in directly with the ultra learning principle of drilling which means to attack your weakest point and break down complex skills into their component parts and then focusing and improving these weak points one at a time before assembling everything back together as a whole let's keep going with the coding example by working on a project directly you realize that there are these gaps in your knowledge or places that you're weak so what you do is you improve these areas individually and then you put everything together and then you try the entire process again for me when i was learning how to code one of my weakest spots was thinking through the technical structure of a project or a problem before implementing i have this thing where i'm quite impatient and i always just think about the code i'm going to write really quickly um and then i just start coding right i just start implementing directly but what happens quite frequently is just further down the line i realize that like the way that i structured my code or just like the approach that i'm using is just not good and then i would spend a lot of time just trying to course correct and just like fix my code as opposed to if i just spent a little bit more time up front and thought about the problem at hand a little bit more thoroughly i could have saved myself a lot more time and headache so this was a weakness for me so i drilled that specific thing and eventually i got stronger in my upfront problem solving and i guess you can call it like code structuring skills uh which i think overall made me a much better programmer now imagine if i didn't have a project to work on i may not even have known i had this weak spot since i might just be like watching someone else code or filling in pieces of code in like structured code that somebody else already wrote and i may not even have realized that being able to structure my own code and think through how i'm going to code is even a crucial skill set i hope when i just explain made sense the best online courses are those that have well thought out and realistic projects built into them of course you can also supplement your own learning by finding your own projects to do but that requires a bit more effort and discipline on your part because honestly watching someone else code and then convincing yourself that you now know how to code is far easier than actually finding your own project um and struggling through it yourself so just keep that in mind and just whatever it is that you choose to do remember to not skimp on the projects i'll save you from my rant on why projects are the best way to learn and just direct you to this video if you're

criterium #3 instructor

interested in learning more alright the third thing to look for in a good online course for you is to make sure that you like the instructor and their voice and presentation style doesn't make you want to smash your face in the wall i don't think i need to explain this one too much uh basically if you can't stand the instructor you're probably going to have a bad time and give up like for example if you can't stand my face or you hate cats then you would probably hate to have me as your instructor okay great you now have a clear end goal in mind and have found a good course to get started with

step 3 - execution

onwards now that you're sitting down to start working through the online course this is where some of the lessons from four disciplines of execution or 4dx comes in i love the book ultra learning for figuring out how to learn best but the power of 4dx isn't actually executing which is honestly the hardest part like seriously how many times have you had a great plan in mind and then not actually do any of it the four disciplines of execution are number one focus on the wildly important number two act on lead measures number three keep a compelling scoreboard and number four create a cadence of accountability we've already covered the first discipline of

discipline #1 the wildly important

execution focus on the wildly important hopefully you've determined that learning this new skill is something that is widely important to you as we've discussed in the beginning of this video and the goal now is to do this online course so you can acquire the skill if that's not the case uh then you should probably reconsider number two

discipline #2 lead measures

is act on lead measures so what is a lead measure or metric 4dx defines metrics into falling to two different categories leading and lagging the lagging metric is what you want to achieve or in other words the goal or image that you imagined yourself being able to do with this new skill that you're learning like becoming a profitable trader or like coding this web app that you've always wanted to do now lead metrics our activities were sub goals that can be acted upon and predict the success of your lag metric this means that if you can just focus on achieving your lead metric your lag mech naturally gets achieved so in summary a good lead metric is highly predictive of your lag metric and is something that you can directly influence in this case of self-study your lag metric is learning the skill of your dreams and your lead metric is something like covering two topics off the list of topics that we compiled earlier per week of course it doesn't have to be two topics you can treat your actual schedule you may notice that i didn't say that the lag metric should be to finish the course and the lead metric is to do two sections of the course a week or something like that i'll be discussing this more later in the video but basically you don't want to be married to a single course since your goal is to learn this new skill not to finish an online course just for the sake of doing that there'll be times where you want to skip sections in your online course that are not in the core list of topics and times when you even want to mix in another course or another resource or even to abandon a course that no longer serves its purpose you want to have that flexibility and focus on your true goal and have your lead metric reflect that

discipline #3 scoreboard

third discipline of execution is to keep a compelling scoreboard what's nice about moocs these days is that they generally keep a scoreboard for you and you actually get these encouraging little banners that motivate you to continue your learning stream for that course this is quite nice and can be motivating to some people however just keep in mind though and to reiterate our goal is to try to optimize learning the skill not completing the course for its own sake and that's why i would also recommend having your own scoreboard that tracks the progress of your lead metric towards your live metric your x-axis in this case would be like the time and the y-axis is the number of topics covered have a goal number as the total number of topics that you need to cover and draw a goal line over time so that you can actually measure your progress having the scoreboard should help you a lot because it's so clear whether you're on track or not since your lead metric aka the number of topics that you need to cover is something that's within your control so you basically can't give the excuse if you don't know what your progress is or blame your lack of progress on the weather or something with that being said life does and maybe your dog ate your internet box thing and your internet went out for a week well that's a pretty compelling reason i guess and it's okay to change your goal line to reflect that we still gotta be flexible all kidding aside though i find that the scoreboard helps a lot in helping me keep on track since it's so clear and simple and also updating it is really easy as well so it's hard for me to justify procrastinating that the fourth

discipline #4 cadence of accountability

discipline of execution is creating a cadence of accountability this can be in many different forms but what tends to work very well is to use some form of social accountability for example having a check-in meeting with a small group of people who are working on similar things the 4dx book recommends having a non-negotiable meeting held at the same time at least weekly it also says to keep it short no longer than 20-30 minutes just to make sure that everybody stays on topic which is assessing everyone's progress since last meeting and reviewing the scoreboard now if you're thinking but tina i have no friends do not worry come hang out on the discord channel link in the descriptions i think there's at least a couple accountability groups that are going on right now and feel free to start another one too okay awesome you now have a plan and a way of execution i would say

how to skip fluff + use mutliple resources

you're mostly set but as promised i will now cover how to skip the fluff and things that are not relevant to you in the courses as well as how to use multiple resources so in terms of skipping the fluff remember your goal and the list of topics that you need to cover remember that these are your north star a mistake i see a lot of people make and i've totally made the same mistake as well many times in the past is thinking that you have to follow a course faithfully i guess it's because of how school usually works and we're kind of conditioned to think that way but that's not efficient instead you should pick only the topics that are in that list of crucial topics to cover and actually spend a disproportional amount of time on those most courses will have buzzword topics that the instructor kind of glosses over or prolonged introductory topics or generally just topics that are not relevant towards achieving your specific goal and if that's the case skip if it makes you feel any better about the fomo realize that you can always come back to these in the future if they ever do become relevant on a similar note the course you decide to take might not contain all the topics that are crucial or at least not in the depth that you would like in that case you can find another course or resource that goes into these topics to complement your current course by nature of most online courses being like online video based it's not the most inherently interactive format some courses may teach great information but don't do the best job in having as many hands-on real-life projects so a good solution is to also sign up for interactive project-based resources that can complement your online course for example for data science data quest is something to check out or tablet which is free the key takeaway here is that you shouldn't be married to one course and feel like you need to complete it you need to think about learning more flexibly and always think about optimizing for your end goal finally last section is how to take

how to take effective notes

notes i think this topic deserves its own separate video so i'm going to be making that video on how to take notes how to remember things and all of that in the future but with respect to online courses specifically a lot of platforms have places for you to make notes directly on certain time stamps or lectures i personally don't use these features much because you can't download all the notes easily so you have to either remember where you took notes or make notes on uh which is not the best i think i'm personally more of an analog person and i prefer paper and pen but you can definitely take notes online or with your favorite note-taking app as well whichever way that it is that you decide to take notes um i think that you should take notes because at least for me it helps a lot in keeping me focused or else my brain just kind of like drifts through something else pretty easily but i don't take copious amounts of notes especially if it's on technical and applied topics like coding for example i just take notes of the high level concepts and reference resources or locations of the course to come back to if i need more details in the future i also like to watch video lectures at two to three times the speed and not pause the videos very often because i find that it helps me keep focused and actively forces me to only write down the most important notes finally after i cover each section of the course i like to also do active recall which is when i don't look at my

active recall

notes or any other resources and kind of just say out loud all the things that were covered in that section in my own words by the way this is another ultra learning principle called retrieval and active recall is the recommended approach doing the active recall helps a lot in retaining information because the act of synthesizing all that information and recalling it in your own words forces your brain to ingrain that information more deeply and solidify your learning you can also choose to do active recall by writing it down but i like saying things out loud because it's a lot faster and also i don't particularly care if people think i'm insane if i'm doing in a public location i guess if that's what you're worried about you can also hide in the corner and do it uh although i don't know if that would actually make you look less insane or not all right there you have it how do you self study using online courses and how to not give up my decades of research and science from my favorite books ultra learning and four disciplines of execution i hope this is a useful video for you i know we covered a lot in this video so please also let me know if you have any questions or want me to make a video that expands on any of the topics that we covered today see you in the next video or live stream

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