Lessons learnt from my 100 days learning challenge

Hi there, I completed a learning streak in April. I wanted to challenge myself to learn at least one new concept or topic on Artificial Intelligence everyday, and it was successful. I didn’t have a broken streak.

I had two forms of inspiration to take on this challenge, one was the “no gree for anybody" theme for 2024 and the other was to teach myself to be consistent. I said to myself that 2024 had to be the year for me.

I started on January 1 and felt confident that I could do it again because I did one last year and was successful. This time I decided to look for an accountability partner and found someone people that were interested, over a hundred, in short, only two of us completed the challenge😅

In February I got a certificate from Coursera on — ”Supervised Machine Learning: Regression and Classification” and felt pretty motivated to continue.

Exam was to start April 2 but my first paper was on the 4th, my anxiety grew and I still didn’t stop, I told myself one hour of ML won’t make me fail, we all waste more than that doing unimportant stuff.

Some challenges I faced

• I basically use a 3GB RAM Laptop that only lasts for 10 minutes when light’s off. I used it for a while when I started this challenge, but felt uncomfortable because there was light issues on my campus, so I had to get used to my phone(thanks to Google Colab).

• I didn’t strictly follow my roadmap. Earlier when I started, I was ticking off topics of the roadmap very quickly, so I was able to complete that roadmap quickly so I was stuck on what to do next.

Takeaways

Despite all that, I was still able to complete it without losing a streak. One thing I realised was that you can always stretch your limits to achieve what you want, that’s the challenge — ”with all these excuses, what can I do, what is possible." Anything is possible.

Surpass your limits!!!