Design Your Own Learning

A Guided Workbook to Master Learning How to Learn

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Back in 2018, when I first started teaching, I was immediately attracted to Self-Directed Learning and Project-Based Learning and designing these experiences for my students gave me the most joy. To me, they both held the keys to agency.

Since then, I’ve coached dozens of teenagers and adults as they designed their own learning journeys: from high schoolers tackling ambitious projects designing systems to tackle space debris to professionals navigating massive career pivots like moving from being an editor to becoming a chef.

Across all these contexts, a specific shape started to emerge: Framing, Planning, Shifting, and Sharing. This workbook guides you through each one so you can meet complex goals in your work, your life, and whatever else this changing world throws at you.

The deeper need here is about building agency. For most of our lives, we’re just passengers in our own education. School builds the infrastructure, including the curriculum to shape the why and what, the teachers to guide us, and the deadlines to keep the momentum. We follow the path and we learn, but we rarely learn how we learn. The system manages the mechanics, so we never think to look under the hood.

What’s Inside the Workbook?

Design Your Own Learning is a guided workbook that puts you back in the driver’s seat. It walks you through the intentional, structured thinking a good educator would apply to your experience — except now, you’re applying it to yourself.

I chose a workbook format because learning works best in a recursive loop: -learn-practice-reflect-do-reflect- (repeat). And this workbook gives you the space and tools to design your journey slowly and recursively. I’ve also integrated coaching techniques into the reflective prompts to help expose mental models that keep you stuck. The experiment here is to see if this workbook can act as your personal learning coach — helping you examine the internal scripts that shape your progress and building a plan tailored to your specific circumstances.

How You Can Help

If you’re ready to dive in, I have two small asks:

1. Grab a personal copy and spread the word. Whether it’s a colleague in a new role, a student trying to study smarter, or an educator asking “how do I help people learn to learn?” — this was written for them. The print edition is now available in India via Pothi or Worldwide via Amazon.
2. Make an instituitional order. I believe this is a perfect give for high school or university students who aren’t being taught these skills yet. If you’re part of an institution and want to place a bulk order, write to me! We can look into cost-effective options provided by the platforms.

Looking forward to hearing your thoughts and questions! https://welearnwegrow.bio/

The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti