I've always learned more from books and the Internet as well as just trying to figure things out for myself than from colleagues, despite having worked with som

I've always learned more from books and the Internet as well as just trying to figure things out for myself than from colleagues, despite having worked with some very smart people. I have learned some valuable things from coworkers but if I had to pick just one there's really no contest. I can also think of many occasions where taking what a coworker told me at face value without doing some independent research myself would have led me to learn bad practices or outright falsehoods. This might depend on the individual but without seeing some empirical evidence I'm not convinced that this advice is that useful.