How you study here and what you take away

When you finish, someone is going to ask you: "are you certified?" It is a short question with a catch, because the person asking wants to know something else. Before you go on: write down what you think they are really asking you.

You already know that only two of the four labels represent, and that accreditation is given to someone inside a recognized organization. With that you can already answer the opening question without lying.

The method here fits in six steps and repeats in every lesson. It starts with a scene and an open question. It goes on to an objective. It shows you a worked example. It makes you practice. It measures you with two questions. And it asks you to explain it back to yourself. Recalling something is harder work than rereading it, and that is why it works.

What you learn comes back. Practice is scheduled by date, not by position: the next day, three days later, a week later, two weeks later and a month later. And a whole lesson is not what comes back: what comes back is the objective you already demonstrated.

At the end of every chapter you take away something printed, one page long. And a course can only claim what it taught and what it measured: what you studied, how long it took and what you demonstrated on the tests. That is everything it can say.