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Here is a secret: everyone who achieves anything is self-taught. Even people who went to a university only learned from the work they did. Most of what they le
by pencilguin 4y ago
Here is a secret: everyone who achieves anything is self-taught.
Even people who went to a university only learned from the work they did. Most of what they learned wasn't on the syllabus. So, treat everything you do as a thing you can learn from. In any textbook you pick up, do all the exercises.
The main thing I learned in engineering school and used after was that not knowing how to do a thing did not mean I could not do it.
If you have to do a thing again, do it better than last time. Maybe the result could be better, or you could get there with less wasted time. Always devote some attention to how you could be better than you are.
- jacobmartinez3d 4y agoVery well said!!
- newsoul 4y agoFantastically put into words!!
- GenerocUsername 4y agoSure, but that's not really news. Everything anyone does they do themselves. I think the real distinction between self-taught and formally taught comes down to sequencing and structure. Self taught people don't always know what the next step is, whereas university or a good mentor can pull you towards the next hop by structuring the lessons into a sequence which naturally goes from a to b to c to d whereas self taught individuals sometimes swing from a to d before coming back and learning c sometimes entirely missing b.