7 CCNA CCNP Study Tips for the New Year - 2018!! w/ Keith Barker CCIE
About this video
NetworkChuck shares study tips for CCNA/CCNP in 2018, joined by Keith Barker, CCIE and CBT Nuggets trainer. Tip one is to hack your mindset: Chuck says he runs in the morning to get focused, and before studying he pauses to reset a bad mood and practice gratitude for family, IT, and the chance to change his career by studying. Barker adds to start where you are and make step-by-step progress, noting Rome was not built in a day. He says his first CCIE took about eight months studying about four hours a day, five days a week, and he passed it for the first time in 2001, while his second CCIE in security beat him the first time and required restudying. Chuck urges starting today with free materials and the exam blueprint instead of waiting for a perfect paid course, not studying alone but joining community such as his CCNA study group, which he says is over 5,000 members, managing energy rather than time by sleeping and studying when most alert, learning by teaching a topic simply to someone else, and labbing repeatedly with Packet Tracer for CCNA and GNS3 for CCNP-level work until skills become second nature.
Key takeaways
- Reset mindset before studying with exercise, a break, and gratitude rather than studying in a bad mood
- Make step-by-step daily progress from where you are instead of waiting to feel ready or aiming only for a huge leap
- Start today using free videos and the exam blueprint if you cannot afford a structured course yet
- Study in community for accountability and help, and manage energy by sleeping and tackling hard topics when most alert
- Teach topics simply to others and lab constantly — Packet Tracer for CCNA, GNS3 for higher levels — to build muscle memory
Episode details: published February 13, 2018 · 14:33 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are NetworkChuck’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.
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