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Divyansh
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The art of learning New things in 2026

Before Ai when we want to learn anything we used to see any bootcamp or course and follow step by step and even after completing those courses you feel no confidence in you .

What works out for me ?

  • Instead of directly going into course we should follow these steps :
  1. Critically thinking (for example currently i don't know about ai ) . I will not go to course . I will go to roadmap.sh

  2. i will read every topics from their atleast the definitions of all terms .

3 . I will ask ai to give me a simple project as a assignment so that i will build muscle memory .

  1. I will not vibeCode instead i will ask the initial setup from ai and rest of it i will google and figure things myself and build that application that was provided by ai assignment .

  2. Doing in this way i may be not become the master of that subject but i will cover almost 70 percent of the things that are easy to do .

  3. The rest of the things i will found out that they are difficult for me to understood . so now i will go to youtube and see any confrence is there which explained good way .
    Either you go to youtube video to look for that or read articles . It depends on your style of learning .

  4. And after completing those 3 4 confusing topics . you are ahead i think .

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Bonus tip for learning more fast ?

  1. SO recently i was starting out java project i don't know nothing about that project so what i will do now ?

  2. I asked ai to give me basic simple full project of java .

  3. Now i cloned that reposiory locally ran it and just start to look at code what it is doing .

  4. After that i figure out things that i don't know like @annotations , Beans . i will search those terms google those terms and just get the overview .

  5. i will deepdive those topics that i am seeing again and again and i don't know about those things .

  6. This step is vasically a reverse engineering process of learning and fastest way to working on .

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