What was happening was a client would call me and book me for a lesson. Now, consultants are expensive, so people naturally try to get as much out of the lesson as they can by trying to cover as much as possible in just an hour or two.
But as you probably know from experience, that doesn’t really work that well — if you try to learn too much at once, it just goes in one ear and out the other, and a lot of it just doesn’t sink in.
And anybody who’s taken computer classes can tell you those aren’t any better.
As a matter of fact, scientists and top educators have discovered that because of the way that the human mind works, we all learn best in lessons that are about thirty minutes long, or shorter.
If we try to learn in lessons that drone on for an hour or two or three, our brains are physically wired to not take in any more after a while — there is a better way!
So more often than not, people end up throwing away money on consultants. It’s not that the consultants don’t know what they’re doing, or that they’re trying to keep you in the dark — it’s just that the basic idea of learning computers the old way is completely flawed.
It’s important to do things the right way if you want to learn computer basics. It doesn’t matter whether you want computer basics for Windows users, or computer basics for Mac, the right teacher and the right type of lessons can really make things a lot easier for you.
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