Self Learners

by gasperpo • 2 years ago

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gasperpo2• 2 years ago

I would like to open a topic about autodidacts.

I consider myself an autodidact, but over the years learning became so hard mentally. Feels like my attention span shortened and I’m unable to sit on some problem for long

your_friend4• 2 years ago

Also I feel like everyone around went through the more fulfilled kinds of learnings and know subjects in depth, while I was just learning what I needed.

your_friend4• 2 years ago

Making me a good problem solver and solutions seller but unable to pass a single interview in my whole life .

33a• 2 years ago

Is this AI generated?

dereify• 2 years ago

completely self-taught use of ChatGPT, i assume

topherclay• 2 years ago

Must be hard to target an audience that self-identifies as not needing your product.

You can read more in our blog post: 5 reasons a self taught person will be teaching themselves instead of reading our blog post.

It feels like reading horoscopes except the only horoscope that matters is the best one, the one you are.

You can read more in our blog post: 9 famous people who we also have the same horoscope.

I suspect the purpose of this website would be much more clear if I browsed it without adblock running.

You can read more in our blog post: 7 best reasons you should be reading a textbook instead.

glimshe• 2 years ago

One of the biggest challenges of being an auto-didact is proving that you know the material. For instance, if you are a self-taught programmer without a formal degree, it's hard to prove that you know as much as someone who has a degree without a previous stellar job history. The degree is a seal of quality on a person.

It would be cool if elite institutions offered a way for people to certify themselves using their stringent criteria without having to pay, or spend the time, for the full course. They would obviously never do that as they would lose a lot of money - assuming this idea is even possible in practice.

gasperpo2• 2 years ago

Here you have some pros and cons about Autodidact and Formal Education: https://iamautodidact.com/self-education-vs-formal-education...

and

https://iamautodidact.com/is-self-education-good-20-pros-and...

baerrie• 2 years ago

I was just trying to describe this personality trait I have last night (although saying I’m autodidactic is probably a sure way to look like a total ass). I have taught myself drawing, painting, photography, programming, guitar, cooking, bartending, and a number of other topics to a deep and skillful degree. I grew up poor and neglected from birth to age 7 in a family where no one has a college degree. I learned how to talk from tv as well as a number of other things (i watched public broadcasting incessantly) and in general would just go outside and observe nature and all of its intricacies. When my dad got custody over me he and my stepmom facilitated this trait of mine, giving me all of the books and access to the library, internet, and cable tv that I wanted. Needless to say, I despised school and the authoritarian learning model.

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