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> sometimes you can save yourself hours, days, or even weeks worth of wasted time trying to understand There's no such thing as wasted time when you're learnin
by guynamedloren 14y ago
> sometimes you can save yourself hours, days, or even weeks worth of wasted time trying to understand
There's no such thing as wasted time when you're learning. In fact, I can't think of a better way to spend my time.
- unimpressive 14y agoThere is a such thing as opportunity costs. Learning faster is better. (Assuming the same quality of understanding derived from time spent.)
- int3 14y agoThere are definitely varying rates of efficiency in learning. I personally find that working with others tends to make me more efficient, for the exact reasons that sliverstorm cites.
- muyuu 14y agoI'm sorry to tickle your confirmation bias, but that's absolute nonsense. You can waste a lot of time learning the wrong things or learning the wrong way. I remember learning assembly, Basic, Pascal, Modula, C... in the late 80s and early 90s, from childhood to college, and how many stupid long hours I wasted just for not having the right resource available anywhere, and having nobody to ask (before Uni). Spending days, weeks clueless simply because a certain book wasn't available or, later, because I couldn't get internet access to look stuff up at will. One gets the wrong assumption that since Google and Wikipedia times everything is easily searchable and personal expert advice is obsolete. It's not. There's an excess of worthless content, even wrong/misleading content, and there are also many questions that Google cannot effectively answer. Wasting time hitting dead ends is VERY costly. It takes away time and energy, might end up with you having wrong or worse-than-otherwise conclusions.