As students and aspiring professionals, our days can easily become a list of things to finish.
Today, I have to attend a session. Tomorrow, I need to attend a webinar. I need to build my skills through a certification, complete an assignment for my internship, and then move on to the next task.
But sometimes I wonder, am I genuinely learning, or am I just completing one task after another because it has been assigned to me?
This thought made me look at my own learning journey. Yes, I do feel accomplished when I complete a course, certification, or assignment. But when I try to summarize or remember what I learned after a few days or weeks, I sometimes realize that I don’t remember everything.
That made me think about the difference between completing something and actually learning from it.
Maybe true progress is not about how much we complete, but how much stays with us.
So, for me now, it is more about the experience, what I learned from it, and whether I can carry that learning forward.
So, what do you think? Are we measuring our progress by how much we complete, or by how much we actually learn?
According to me the progress is when we can understand and implement what we have learned. Also the experiences we get while completing these tasks gives actual understanding of concepts. We should do as we feel is keeping us interested and engaged and we are actively using and implementing it.
Yes obviously just completing the task should not be our only motto, the main aim is how much we are learning throughout the journey. Sometimes we just do the assigned tasks but we didn’t learn anything from this. So in my opinion it doesn’t matter how much we are following but how much we are learning from it is more important.
It doesn’t mean we just don’t do the tasks that are assigned but also we should to do the tasks by heart and with honesty so that at the end we will be able to gain knowledge from it.
Completing a short term course just to earn the credentials gives dopamine boost. Focused engagement and genuine intrest in the course can lead to better understanding and learning.
Honestly that’s happening with everyone nowadays, learning has just become an task to be complete. Take an example: when you learn something on certain day, it is expected to have it’s revision or practice on same day to properly memories and acquire that skill. But if you missed that, on second day new thing comes to our face and if we certainly if missed to practice or revise this thing too the burden of timely acquiring those skills keep growing day by day. In this case the normal routine acquiring of skills becomes tasks to be finished and in rush to finish this task actually acquiring skills got neglected.
Same phenomenon is applicable for our job work too. Every delay steal our opportunity to learn new things acquiring skills by converting them into cold tasks only prioritised to be finished in due time!
This is true. Tasks are piled up before us. And all we do is complete them one after another without actually learning. I agree with you that the experience is what actually matters, and the aim should be to carry the learning forward.
I think whatever we do to grow our carrier ,it remain intact with us. it pays off at the time of performance either in form of practical outcome or at the time of interview. So just do it if it can contribute to your path.
Absolutely! I really liked your perspective on how actively implementing what we learn, along with the experience gained through the process, makes the learning much more meaningful.
Absolutely! I really liked how you highlighted the difference between just completing a task and actually learning from it. Doing the task with honesty and intention is what makes the experience truly valuable. Well said!
That’s a very relatable point. When learning starts feeling like a checklist, we may finish everything on time but still miss the actual purpose of learning. The point about practice and revision really adds to this perspective.
We have to learn what we are doing but just completing the task may give certificates, but it doesn’t help furtherly without knowledge the certificate doesn’t have any value. So involving into multiple progammes same time faces this type of situations only completing the tasks without the real involvement or learing
