Learning and continuous learning is a solution for lots of career problems. However, many of us fail to find time to shape our learning curve. We feel too packed in taking out time for learning from our super busy schedule. The presentation discusses simple but effective hacks to tune our daily routine and habits thereby finding time lost in the daily routine and utilize it for learning.

1. Transformative hacks
for everyday learning
Niraj Yadav

2. Topics
● Reading - A distinct trait of successful people
● Where does the time goes?
● Where to look for extra minutes?
● Building the habit and memory retention
● Q&A

3. How did you build a rocket?

4. Any guesses how many books he read?

5. 350 million copies of his work sold
Stephen King
“Television is poisonous to creativity,
you must do two things above all others:
read a lot and write a lot.”

6. Benefits of reading

7. Benefits of reading
● Improves thought process
● Its learning from others life
● Increases focus
● Reduces stress
● Increases memory, vocabulary, etc

8. Where does the time goes?

9. TIME FLIES BY
● Lost in endless scrolling of FB,
Twitter, Insta, etc [Distractions]
● Self promise to watch the same
series 8th time [Distractions]
● Long gossips [Distractions]
● Laziness

10. Finding extra minutes

11. Finding extra minutes
● Morning hours (30-45 minutes)
● Public transport
● Weekends
● Reading vacation
● Downtimes in office
● Queues or wait times

12. How and where to begin?
● Prioritize things a day before
● No Emails in the morning
● Increase focus
○ Meditate
○ Simple exercise to increase focus

13. How and where to begin? contd.
● Scribble and underline
● Note points in a notebook or pocket diary
● Write the start date and end date on book
● Explore other works of author
● Carry one book in bag everytime
● Its okay to quit
● Read blogs, articles in case book is not accessible

14. How and where to begin? contd.
● Don’t let the jargons slip away
● Chai pe charcha with a Developer/QA friend
● Read and answer questions on forums like stackoverflow
● Subscribe and spend time reading Newsletters

15. Building the habit

16. Building the habit
● 21 Days
● Take help of Apps
● Take reading challenges (No of books/ mins per day
like 10k steps)
● Join various book clubs
● Curate your list

17. Building the habit & retention
● Make use of Books by Weight sales
● Take short breaks
● Ponder over the content
● Revisit your old notes

18. Questions?