What, how, when, and how much did you study?
January 26, 2021
I was pursuing a bachelor's degree in aerospace engineering, and the only thing I knew for sure was that I didn't want to work as an aerospace engineer. It's not a clear future at all.
I discovered the field of neurotechnology when my thesis defense was a few months away. I've always loved psychology and anything related to the human mind, so this intrigued me. The “technology” part sounded like something I could get into with my background, but I didn't see how I could get there from where I was.
I put off making a decision, but now that I'm about to graduate from college, I have to make the next choice.
I chose the latter and set myself on a path to finding work in the field of neurotech. But I lacked half the knowledge and most of the skills. A bridge was needed to ease the slope. So I defined it like this:
“Aerospace Engineering -> artificial intelligence → “Neuroscience/Neurotechnology”
easy, right? AI was waiting in the middle. I had enough mathematical background to study his AI on my own. And at the same time, AI was close enough to neurotech to make the leap from there.
I wanted to study AI long enough to get a job and then jump into the human mind. I started the next week. That was in late September 2017.
I planned my studies very carefully because I needed to optimize all the resources within my reach to achieve what I wanted to achieve. Until the end of January 2018, I was working at an AI startup.
How did you do it? Let's begin!
When studying something, there are four important aspects. What to study, how to study, when to study, and how much to study.
Special care was taken to mix different types of resources and assess their reliability.
In university, you have already chosen what you will study, but when it comes to studying on your own, you have to find out…
