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Hi guys,

I wanted to ask how do you find motivations to study? I feel absolutely not willing to do anything at the moment. However, i know that i need to try to push myself to do some learning.

Any advices?

Thank you

 

I am learning for 271 (MCDST). However, this week on my placement they push me to learn a bit of sharepoint. They are using it for very basic purpose. So I am more concentrated on my XP exam at the moment. However, i need to improve my sharepoint knowledge too.

I think it was you doing blogs about 271 exam. I might be wrong. Anyway, it is really difficult to push myself learning after being working a whole day.

How do you motivate yourself to study?

 

What can I say... For me, it's the motivation of having a cert which keeps me reading and testing. I aim for the exam which in turn makes me add more and more of my time to the study material at hand.

What you may be experiencing is a burn-out, maybe from doing too much studying (which I guess is different for each person). Remember; "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy"

Maybe you're finding your current study material a bit boring, get something else to read and see if you're psyched for some other technology. When you've had a dose of that, come back to the original one or something (although you may need to re-read parts to refresh the things you learnt).

 

Great advice. I might try different material. However, I think i am going to do some practical learning for a period time. After i might get my motivations back to read and learn more.

 

Good advice from Arroryn.

I remember my first "dry" IT book was the Exchange 2000 training book from MS Press which I used for my MCSE studies. That was a PAIN to read.

 

I like to study in short bursts, and I skim sections that I'm already familiar with. If I don't have enough hands-on expereince, it'll slow me down to a slog... which can make the material difficult to study.

 

Ok this is not a reply to specific – “course” “cert” “qualification” etc but I am also studying and have a what you may say “different” approach: -

I saw a program a few years back regarding a self-made millionaire, his motivation for getting further or working harder (and I guess doing things that were are bit tedious or boring) was a screen saver..! (stay with me lol) when his business started of he had a picture of a BMW/Mercedes etc on the S/saver so every time it popped up he knew what he was working for..! Then when he got the car he changed the image i.e BMW to a Porsche and when he got that he put a 150k Ferrari on it and in the end he had a garage worth about 500k..!

The morel of the story is if he got of track or thought “why” he remembered his goal (or one of the cars)

Now I am trying to become a freelance web designer and developer (now many people have said its either/or not both (design or develop). Now I know its going to take longer to get to the goal but in the end I know it will be worth it.

I kinda do the same thing as the above bloke, but for me its money. Now in plucking figures out of the air here but - I look and see what good developers charge or can get and use that as my “car” i.e. ok (ish) designer/developer can get 500 a site may take a week so that’s 2k a month – as you get better “learn more” you get more (or bigger better car) so if I keep learning and put the effort in I can get 25k for a few months work on a really hard site..! 100k a year THAT PUSHES ME

And breath…….. you still awake


Torrix