<aside> 🌖 Dreaming is part of the Lean Learning Method and is supposed to help you decide intentionally what to learn. The intentional decision will help you be more focused, deliberate, and joyful during your learning sessions.
Focused by not get distracted easily by your environment or other interesting topics.
Deliberate because you have a clear direction towards which you can direct all your actions to.
Joyful because you made a decision that is meaningful to you.
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What is your dream? What do you want to become? What do you want to do? What can you start learning today to come closer to your dream?
If you are anything like me, these questions are overwhelming, uncomfortable, and might create anxiety. I feel like this because I have a lot of interests and I don’t know what to focus on, what to learn, where to improve.
I struggled with this for almost a year. I learnt a bit of Data Science, User Experience Design, I even took an Introduction to Psychology course. I jumped around in my interests and tried to avoid the important questions.
Then, at the beginning of this year, I decided to mix things up. Get my intentions straight. I came up with a process I called Dreaming. Calling it something fancy and coming up with it increased my motivation to really answer the important questions.
Dreaming is not some magical hack. It includes known productivity tips and strategies. It embraces questions from the Bullet Journal Method which is a great way to get your intentions straight. So I thought instead of using it for tasks, my to-do list and productivity why not use it for learning as well. And here is the result.
Dreaming follows the M.A.P. steps.
First, you (M) make a list. Make a list with the following columns: “Dream”, “What sparks my curiosity?”, “What motivates me to invest time and energy?”, “What am I trying to accomplish?”, “What might be a smaller dream?”, “What system could I use?”.
It should look like this:
Now, fill the first column with your dreams. What do you want to learn? What is your dream? What are you interested in? What is your dream to become? What is your dream to be doing?
For example, you could write down things like Data Scientist, UX Designer, Design Engineer, Psychology, LX Designer.