Continuing Education
by: Luke Flowers
Continuing Education A Choose Your Own Adventure
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began to read and learn about Revit MEP in 2012, before anyone in my network knew anything about it. This was several years into my career, and the first time it became apparent to me that continuing my own education made a major difference in your career path. Unknowingly, I learned a repeatable continuous education process, which I still use to this day.
WHERE TO BEGIN?
This article will cover the process I discovered and action steps that made it easy to repeat. This is not a new process by any means, but the flexibility of the process makes learning a new topic achievable. Since time is always limited and there is so much information to learn and new goals to set, developing a plan to make the best use of your continuing education hours is imperative.
Deciding which new skill to learn first can be more difficult than scheduling the time to study, finding the resources to learn the material or understanding the information presented to master the new skill. Thinking about Albert Einstein’s quote “The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don’t know,” made it apparent that focusing on a broad topic was only a starting point. Couple
Continuing education can be thought of like a “choose your own adventure” book that always has a happy conclusion. Regardless of the path you choose, you always end up better than when you started. Understanding that every path leads to improvement, which path do you choose?
AUGIWORLD Magazine | November 2021 augi.com
