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So I've always appreciated when someone who is trying to teach me something that is lengthy and complicated

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first gives me some pointers as to how to best maximize my learning experience and retention of the

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information that's coming my way.

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So that is the purpose of this lecture.

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I do realize and understand that different people do learn differently but there are some general constants

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here that will apply to every sort of learner regardless of what sort of learner you yourself are.

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First material of this nature is best learned retained and becomes a thing from which one can extrapolate.

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By doing it by practicing it think of yourself as an optimization doctor just as a doctor of medicine

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practices medicine.

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So too much you practice optimization.

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And the best way to apply this principle to this course is to do to practice the different optimizations

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discussed as they are discussed.

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So for example Section 3 of the course deals with baselines and benchmarks.

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What those are how to use them are the tools you will use to establish them as I discussed these tools.

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Go ahead and stop the lecture when you see me example something and using the tool being discussed.

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Replicate what I'm doing in the lecture which I've done so feel free to return the lecture and then

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move forward.

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As another example Section 7 of the course deals with render blocking CSSA and Javascript what those

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are and how to fix them.

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Did you see me example ing solutions to these problems.

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Again stop the lecture and practice applying them to your own web site.

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Second I very highly recommend you do your initial doing your first practicing on a test website or

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in a testing environment prior to applying what you're learning to a live trafficked monetised making

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money already.

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Production site and the reason is simple.

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You are an optimization doctor yes but it's best to consider yourself an intern as opposed to a fully

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licensed doctor of optimization.

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So just as a surgeon must first practice on a cadaver before they're allowed to operate on you.

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To remove your appendix so should you practice on something where you know you can't kill the patient.

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Thirdly and as someone who is semi addicted to their own iPhone I do understand the impetus to want

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to use it for everything including taking this course but and to be frank doing so would just be silly.

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You're going to be manipulating your site's source code or theme's functions that THP file copying and

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pasting code snippets that I will be providing navigating within and altering things in your hosting

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account etc etc etc..

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So no matter how nimble your fingers are using your phone for this course leaves you very susceptible

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very open to making mistakes that cannot be easily backtracked done or even identified as mistakes until

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significantly after the fact.

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This is of course setting aside the fact that you're the size of your phone screen simply does not lend

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itself to the course of this nature.

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I would actually argue that very few courses on this or any similar platform are wisely taken a telephone

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smart or otherwise.

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But that's my two cents on them.

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Take that information as you will but at any rate you're really going to want to use for this course

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at the very least a large screened tablet with a laptop being better than that and with a desktop computer

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being ideal.

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If all you have is a smartphone that's one thing but if you have these other better suited options available

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to you laptop or and especially a desktop computer please do use them.
