Introducing the #LearntThisToday Posts

I'm starting a series of posts on this blog with the label #LearntThisToday. As the name suggests, the main purpose of these posts is documenting different things I learn everyday. The contents may include just a list of items I've learnt, some description about them, or maybe even some technical parts. I realized that it could help me in many ways, including:

1. By keeping track of what I learn everyday, I find myself more motivated to actually learn something. If a day goes by and I don't have anything to share in this category, then it means I should do better the next day. So, these posts are some kind of academic/scientific/fun diary of mine.
2. Equally importantly, by writing down what I've learnt, I move the material from my short-term to long-term memory.
3. And finally, these posts help me translate the more technical stuff into layman's terms. This helps me build a deep intuition about what I have learnt. I truly believe that the only time you can really claim you've learnt something is if you can explain it to your grandmother.

This quarantine time can have positive and negative effects on our lives, depending on how we manage to adapt to it. The extra time that I'm saving by not commuting everyday can be used to write diaries like these posts, which I hope I'll continue doing even after the quarantine is over.

In the end, I should say that letting others know about cool things you've learnt is always fun! For instance, if I read an interesting paper on structural models, then I definitely would like to share the joy with the rest of the world and let them know what that paper was talking about. Maybe you should try it too!