Famous self-learners

Have you ever thought that the creator of Apple, Steve Jobs,has teached himself ?
Unbelievable, hein??!!
Here you can find some other famous persons who have learned by themselves without studying at school, this is what we call autodidact people.

But first some ideas and tips about self-learning:
- Autodidact/self-educate/self-directed learning/automath/self-taught person
- An autodidact is a person who has the will and the real desire to learn by himself in a certain field and who in general has a passion for this specific subject; he wants to succeed in education and takes the decision to excel in it.
- You may have been an autodidact in your whole life even though you have been to school: you may have learned things in another way independent to school, by yourself.
- It does not only means that you are lonely to self educate yourself: some autodidacts have spent hours in libraries and in front of their computer on websites to learn.
- Some people will never self educate themselves without anyone because they need the guidance of someone. To be a self-educated person is a real skill since it means that you have the power to discover and understand things on your own.
- Tools to teach ourselves: books, computers, human, projects…
- Reasons for self-educating ourselves: to do it at our own rhythm, cheaper (than universities or school), make it a leisure than a hard time, you learn more and faster than in a scholar way.
- Steps before self-learning: to evaluate the needs, to define objectives, determine resources learning; evaluate what is expected from the person.

Famous autodidacts: people who have learned by themselves:

Benjamin Franklin: writer and physician

Socrates: famous Greek philosopher

Steve Jobs: inventor of the personal computer: he went to high school and then audited classes.

Henry Ford: the founder of the ford cars company and of the Fordism theory.

Walt Disney: alias Walter Elias Disney: American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator and entrepreneur.

Stanley Kubrick: he stated “…I never learned anything at all in school and didn’t read a book for my pleasure until I was 19 years old.”

Ernest Hemingway: an American novelist and short story writer; After high school, Hemingway did not want to go to college. Instead, at age eighteen, he began his writing career as a cub reporter.

Abraham Lincoln: the 16th president of the USA

Sir Isaac Newton: an English Philosopher, mathematician, physician, astronomer and alchemist.

Leonardo DaVinci: scientist, mathematician, painter, inventor, engineer, and sculptor.

Great tools to be motivated!!

- Stay positive:Try to take the positive side of advices and phrases of people around you.
- A better pay: Try to ask for a better pay if you deserve it, this will help you to realize that you worth it.
- Calm down: Take some time for yourself to recharge batteries (during lunch break, put your head in front of the sun and just do not think about anything, you can repeat this action any time of the day but in a quiet place)
- Forum chat: you will see many life and autobiographies of many people, this helping you to associate yourself to someone or on the contrary to see what you must not do. You will also get some different advices from many people.
- Documentation on the Internet: many subjects are treated; if you need any information keep one hour or two during the day to be aware of the information you are interested in. The more you take information on your subject, the more you will be able to speak about it and gain self-confidence.
- Enter the professional life: Go to specific working fairs and/ or exhibitions to put you in the working atmosphere and to meet people motivated by their work, this will help you to define more what you want and what you do not want.
- Include your family: Working with a member of your family may help you to be motivated to work, the atmosphere might be more relax and will give you confidence to work. If this option is not in your plan, talk about your plans and even your doubts to your parents or relatives, their advices are always important and they can help you to drive you in the right way.
- Try to help someone: it will give you self confidence since you see that you have competencies and you will gain motivation
- Put less importance to your work: imagining that the task you have to do is funny, that it is not big dill if you do not succeed it.
- The Outfit: Try to dress in a way that you feel well, and if you try a bit to be classy, you will see that it will give you self-confidence.
- Physical form: In order to be well in your head, you have to feel well physically: instead of going to work by transport, do it by foot and you will see that it will clear your mind to work better.
- Program your time: create a scheduled program for each day and each week, this will help you to clearer your tasks and maybe to discover new ones.

11 simple and profitable ways to self-promote a company

Website creation

To promote and sell a product or a service, a web site is a very good means because this one is accessible all around the world. Thus it is possible to widen its clientele in the whole world by selling its services or its products on-line

A good « google » registration

A good “google” registration is the first condition to promote its company via its web site. Indeed, the customers go generally on web sites as google, yahoo, lycos by writing keywords to reach the services or the products for which they look.

Try to have an « easy » phone number (0800 801 801)

To facilitate the memorization of your phone number, this one has to be simple. This phone number easily known will allow developing loyalty of the clientele. Indeed, if a customer needs one of your services or products, he does not need to waste time to look for your number in a phone book; he already knows it by heart.

Make a press kit

So that the media speak about you (television, press, radio), it is necessary to prepare a press kit containing the main information presenting your company and what it realizes. This one will avoid that the media deform your activity.

Add a virtual business card at the end of each email

It seems to be simple but the majority of people do not think of signing their email by specifying their profession, their company name, their web site address etc . However this information is very important especially in the case of professional emails. It gives a good image of you to the customer and that allows promoting at the same time your company.

Submit its company in web directories

These Web directories are a good way of being known by the clientele that we wish to target. Indeed, it is possible to promote its company by registering it in web directory corresponding to its sector and to its domain of activity.

Create an « about us » heading

Customers who come on your web site like to know whom you are, why you decided to create this company, which are your motivations … The heading “about us” has to contain this information. This one allows promoting yourself directly.

Create a Forum and a newsgroup

By means of a forum, you help other people of the same activity sector by answering their questioning. This forum is a great way of increasing your visibility and of gaining some credibility. If your information is useful, people will want to learn more about you

Submit articles

Articles linked with your activity sector are one of the best ways to promote your web site and at the same time your company because they increase strongly your visibility. Indeed, a lot of people constantly look for free information to complete their own articles and thus they will appreciate your contributions. Thanks to these articles, you will obtain a lot of traffic on your web site.

Make a conference to speak about a new business and an industry

Organizing a conference is a very good way to promote yourself because people often look for means to improve their lives and their companies. For that purpose, they like going to conferences to learn it more on their sector. It is obviously necessary to bring a lot of business cards to increase your customer network.

Do a contest

In general, people like participating in competitions to win prizes. Organizing a contest linked with your sector can be a very good way to promote your company.

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