Coming from a science/engineering background, I love breaking ideas and knowledge down into little manageable pieces. It’s so satisfying to feel that you’ve broken down a new mountain of a problem into lots of small chunks that you understand. In fact, the process of breaking things down myself helps me to categorise and understand the task at hand.

But what about when someone else has already done all the hard work (and most of the learning) for you by breaking down a problem, or lets say, a qualification, into small manageable pieces? How useful is it for me to work through someone else’s breakdown of their learning? Where’s the challenge? Where’s the story?… where’s the motivation?

I’ve been browsing through some books to find out what I can get out of the new TAA04 Certificate IV in Training and Assessment… not because I have to, but because I’m excited to find out what might be new since I ‘completed’ my training. But when I reached page 123 (corresponding to the second performance criteria of the third element of the second competency unit in the course), I couldn’t help but poke my head up for a breath of fresh air… I felt like I was bogged down in so much detail… too much detail to take in… hopefully the image helps you see what I saw.
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