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The number of online courses I have signed up for & not actually completed is absurdly high. Especially self-paced ones but even like… I dropped out of @fortelabs' BASB halfway. Watched a lil of @nateliason Roam course. Early backer on @m_ashcroft's AT course, haven't touched.
Signed up for @mattgoldenberg's Procrastination Playbook bootcamp and didn't go to most of the sessions. He held a pretty good container for us exploring what schemas might have been active for me around "homework" & shoulds & stuff there though—kudos.
And that's far from a complete list. Part of this probably reflects not so much a lack of follow-through but an over-optimism about *buying* courses, only to discover that they don't really feel like they're addressing my real situation/bottleneck.
The only online course I can recall completing is @ribbonfarm Longform blogging course and I'm sure that was online possible because it was live & had an external deliverable. Felt less like a course and more like "onramp to RF guest post".
I want like... a thing where when I go on twitter, my feed randomly includes content from online courses I've signed up for, not just tweets. Why can't this content be folded into my natural dopamine hooks? Hmm...
I'm taking in a deeper layer of this experience of mine is a huge part of why the Goal-Crafting Intensives we host are structured the way they are: • a couple optional pre-event exercises • live 5h sessions w 10min vids, exercises & coaches https://t.co/wEpVakFrUX
Even the pre-event exercises are quite compatible with people not doing it all at once but kind of opening it up periodically randomly. 💭 Dream List benefits from background rumination & reverie. 📅 Time Audit benefits from logging over the course of a week.
@AskYatharth can your co-lifing concept create an ongoing platform that gets people doing courses together? Maybe even different courses, just like, showing up to learn together! Or maybe a Complice coworking room explicitly for working MOOCs & other online courses… hmm 🤔
@Malcolm_Ocean - Living document discussion format (e.g., if smn shares a cool frame, other types into doc, prompts everyone to take 60 seconds to apply to their life, then share examples, type it in—super rich, applied understanding, can review doc months later and still find legible)
@Malcolm_Ocean - Close with “insights to actions”—i.e. help other person schedule time for action, write first 2 sentence of doc to write or email to send, whatever is needed Courses are useless if not taken action on. Notes are useless if illegible on review. https://t.co/32qedmrzCz
@Malcolm_Ocean I’ve used “co-coursing” to great profit with my friends. It’s painless, easy and fun. I spend quality time with loved ones. Way less guilt and stress about content I’m not reviewing. I’d love to make this more of a thing, especially if the Stoa talk happens.