Understanding, learning and memorising your knowledge.

[David Woodward]

Hey Wes,

Tweeting with you and learning from your modules has really inspired me.

I understand you've probably done a lots of preparation, many more days writing and rewriting code for your modules and such behind the scenes before they reach us, but how do you learn?

I'm following your Learn Node course and around video 20-25 is where things have started to become spaghetti in my brain. It's not that I don't understand it as it's happening, but those neural pathways just don't link very well yet - and that will surely come with practice. Do you find that you understand a lot of your course material but don't truly know it without a refresher through the docs or back through old projects?

I've just gone about taking a lot of what I've learned so far into another personal project of mine and I'm finding that I grasp what's happening fairly easily, but if I had to rewrite it, I'd be a mess. Things like the error handlers, setting up app.js and start.js, etc.

I suppose I'm just curious about your learning methods, what you understand vs. what you know and how you prioritise the information you need to know.