Autodidactism Part 1

Walter Pendragon
Nov 5 · 3 min read

Learning is a personal process. At the end of the day, learning requires investment of oneself into a process of mistake making with the belief that in the future this will pay off. Why is it that some excel at ‘learning’ and other’s don’t? Why do some people get better and better and other’s don’t.

Well I don’t know. That dynamic plays out for many reasons. One reason we can be confident in though is self teaching. I’m sitting in a lecture right now and unfortunately it is a waste of my time. I know I can learn this material faster on my own. The lecture is 90 minutes and I can absorb the…

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