This is the story of how years of continuous learning took me on a wild ride across careers and finally brought me to home to my tribe, plus three tips to get you started on a life of learning.
My career is hard to define.
I went to law school and studied for a dual honors degree, worked in the country’s best law firms, and graduated as a top student from India’s best law school with one year of teaching experience at University.
While in college, I’d also started a legal education startup that trained India’s future lawyers, and by the time I graduated, it became the country’s biggest such portal. After graduation, I refused a legal advisor position at a large private bank and shifted careers to digital strategy to work as a consultant.
Currently, I’m doing a tech Fellowship, learning No Code, and I feel like I’ve finally found home that brings together my diverse interests.
For the longest time, my stints across various fields and roles used to stress me out because I used to think that I had to find one thing and stick to it.
But no matter how much I tried, I just couldn’t stop myself from running around with excitement to try out everything that looked interesting.
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I had never planned on ending up here at age 25.
In fact, all my childhood, I wanted to be a scientist. The journey has been bumpy, uncertain, stressful, but all the while exhilarating.
And while I never planned or foresaw where my journey would take me, there is nowhere else I’d rather be. I’ve finally found home.
For the pieces to line up perfectly this way, I’ve had to pick a range of skills and learn them quickly, and often, with no direction. I relied on online forums and blogs, and videos when available. This is how I learned to build websites, run Facebook ad campaigns, graphic design, video editing, SEO, live streaming lectures, calligraphy, and other skills that didn’t have a very clear purpose but my entertainment.
What I realized is that for everything to work out the way it did for me, my undying love for learning played the most significant role. It opened opportunities, showed me the way, and connected me to people all of who took me on a path that wouldn’t have opened for me otherwise. And for women who are starting their career or pivoting to a new one, here’s my #1 tip: never stop learning.
<aside> 🔰 How can you be an incredible learner? I’m not talking about being an ace student, or getting top grades, or winning honors. I’m talking about gaining a mastery over a range of skills that you identify as important for your life.
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Treat it as the most important step since this will show compounded results in the long term. The way you do this is by consciously making space for serendipity by furiously exploring everything that intrigues you. You’ll find something you love, and over time, with more of your exploration, you’ll be able to make connections other people cannot.
Traditional education is dead. Don’t wait for courses. Master the art of finding answers on the internet, because everything is out there for you already, created by those who have figured it out.
The teachers of the future will not flaunt a fancy degree. The teachers of the future are creators, builders, and community-shapers.
Don’t wait for some fancy credential to validate your learning, find those with passion and tenacity and scrappiness in your favorite fields who can teach all those skills to you and more.
For the first time in the history of humankind, we have unlimited barriers to information. It is an incredible time to be alive.
Don’t resist the revolution.
Lead it.
By Vensy Krishna
Article by: Vensy Krishna
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