We're not talking about programming per-say - we're talking about being able to teach yourself, without much outside instruction. If you wanted to learn to pla

We're not talking about programming per-say - we're talking about being able to teach yourself, without much outside instruction. If you wanted to learn to play the guitar, learn to take good photos with a nice camera, learn how to decorate your house in a tasteful or fashionable, basically anything you don't have any experience or knowledge in, how do you do it? The people who haven't learned how to learn either simply DON'T do it or they use their social group to find someone to teach them or pay somebody. You can get pretty far without being able to teach yourself things, but for some skills especially those you have no idea about you have to be able to research and learn yourself.