{"id":6332,"date":"2024-04-29T08:55:04","date_gmt":"2024-04-29T07:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jollydeck.com\/academy\/?p=6332"},"modified":"2024-08-28T10:58:15","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T09:58:15","slug":"balanced-learning-is-key","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jollydeck.com\/academy\/l-and-d-tidbits\/balanced-learning-is-key\/","title":{"rendered":"Balanced learning is key"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Learning or performance support? That\u2019s a poor choice!<br>The right answer is: both!<br><br>Let me share a story:<br>20 months ago, I had no clue what ChatGPT was.<br><br>When I first saw it, I started completely from scratch. It was fun playing with it, but I soon realised I was only scratching the surface.<br><br>I wanted to delve deeper, but learning from tweets, LinkedIn posts, and web articles didn&#8217;t really elevate my understanding to a level I was comfortable with.<br><br>So, I decided to sign up for several courses developed by experts who clearly knew what they were preaching. I invested a hefty amount of time (and money) to learn about AI, from the basics of neural networks and machine learning to prompt engineering.<br><br>And it was a revelation!<br><br>These courses helped me build a solid knowledge foundation, enhancing my understanding of AI discussions and enabling me to leverage others&#8217; insights to improve my own understanding.<br><br>I was finally able to grow at a pace I was happy with!<br><br>However, I would never have reached this level by merely searching for information as needed (a.k.a. performance support).<br><br>The key takeaway:<br>1. Performance support doesn&#8217;t work well without foundational knowledge.<br>2. Classic learning alone will also not allow you to reach your full potential.<br>3. Learning should be a well-balanced diet.<br><br>Prove me wrong \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learning or performance support? That\u2019s a poor choice!The right answer is: both! Let me share a story:20 months ago, I had no clue what ChatGPT was. When I first saw it, I started completely from scratch. It was fun playing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jollydeck.com\/academy\/l-and-d-tidbits\/balanced-learning-is-key\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6333,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"single-tidbits.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-l-and-d-tidbits"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jollydeck.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jollydeck.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jollydeck.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jollydeck.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jollydeck.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6332"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jollydeck.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6334,"href":"https:\/\/www.jollydeck.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6332\/revisions\/6334"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jollydeck.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jollydeck.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jollydeck.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jollydeck.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}