{"id":21,"date":"2012-06-08T01:15:33","date_gmt":"2012-06-08T01:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/feralpacket.org\/?p=21"},"modified":"2014-06-17T16:09:37","modified_gmt":"2014-06-17T16:09:37","slug":"personal-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/feralpacket.org\/?p=21","title":{"rendered":"Personal Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nWhen I first started studying for the CCIE, I was daunted by the sheer amount of material that I would have to learn.  Commiting 16 &#8211; 20 hours a week to self study became a challenge.  I felt that I had picked up too many bad habits over the years.  I was allowing to many distractions and excuses to interfer to studying.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI started to spend time reading books on both personal and professional development.  I used a mind mapping program called FreeMind (freemind.sourceforge.net) to take notes.  A list of activities from the Wikipedia article on Personal Development became the starting point of the mind map.  Sources of information in the mind map include books I bought, books available on Safari Books Online, books on Kindle, and articles found on the Internet.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe mind map is a living document.  It&#8217;s incomplete and continually changing and being updated.\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/download.feralpacket.org\/Personal_Development.mm\">http:\/\/download.feralpacket.org\/Personal_Development.mm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I first started studying for the CCIE, I was daunted by the sheer amount of material that I would have to learn. Commiting 16 &#8211; 20 hours a week to self study became a challenge. I felt that I had picked up too many bad habits over the years. I was allowing to many [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/feralpacket.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/feralpacket.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/feralpacket.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feralpacket.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feralpacket.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/feralpacket.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25,"href":"https:\/\/feralpacket.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions\/25"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/feralpacket.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feralpacket.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feralpacket.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}