“We are all self directed learners by birth until we are told otherwise and we begin to believe it”
In this series, we look at various aspects of self directed learning and burst myths associated with it.
Over the last 15 years, we have seen the wonders of how a self directed journey blossoms the learner to their deepest capacities, transforming them at a self level, enabling them to own responsibility of leading their lives.
A self led learning journey can be extremely empowering but it may also seem daunting to begin with, mainly because of the misconceptions one may have. That was the case with Sriya too. She always had a liking for designing. After giving her 12th boards, she had the option to join a design course or embark on a self led journey with CoVersity.
Her main concern – ‘I don’t know where to begin? How will I teach myself everything?’
This is a common concern, rather belief that one needs to do everything by oneself.
Contrary to the belief, on a self led journey, YOU have the choice to DECIDE –
- What you want to learn – specific areas in your domain – say interior designing, product designing, UI/UX designing etc.
- How you want to learn – projects, workshops, tutorials, competitions, internships, courses etc.
- From whom you want to learn – buddies, mentors, books, internet resources etc.
- Your pace and intensity – deep dive as much as you want to push yourself
- Your style and approach – understand factors that accelerate or hinder your learning
Long story short, Sriya chose to lead her own journey in designing and explored a gamut of things in the field of designing – interiors, fashion, websites, graphic, logos, UI/UX. She took up various projects (some paid assignments too), attended competitions for a period of 6 months. At the end of it, she was clear that UI/UX designing interested her the most and went about focusing all her energies in that area.
A Self Directed Journey is for anyone who wants to operate from a sense of responsibility towards their passion – having the freedom to do it their way, taking support and guidance wherever needed, reflecting and reviewing at regular intervals. Basically, anyone who wants to be the driver of their life.
At CoVersity, you embark on a Self Led Journey along with other passionate youth – all of you deep diving in your interests, pushing-pulling each other out of the comfort zone, supporting in various ways. You learn to figure things out by doing things yourself. Once you have the cracked the code to your own SELF, you are ready to take on and explore any domain that you may wish to in the future.