15-25: mostly learn generically from generic famous books
25-32: mostly learn from introspection and weird/obscure books/writings that somehow “spoke” to me in a unique way
32-40: mostly learned from experiences and older people 1:1
40+: mostly learning from <40 people 1:1
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I’ve learned almost nothing from people who were formally my teachers, except for 3 (all in grad school). Doesn’t mean they were bad. Others seemed to learn from shared teachers a lot more. Mostly they were good for accountability/testing.
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Mostly I learn from people who don’t even realize I’m learning from them. And mostly it’s because they are transparently modeling some effective pattern of metacognition I can copy. Not expertise/talents. I learn nothing from other people’s expertise or talents.
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As I tweeted elsewhere recently, in a narrow sense of expertise and skill development I actually stopped learning entirely at ~25
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Heh, I should make thus list at least privately to figure out *what* I’ve been learning, which is entirely illegible except through the lens of who I’m learning it from.
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Weird thing is in the case of younger people they often seem unaware that they’re thinking in interestingly different ways and I’m almost a bit wary of pointing it out in case it makes them self-conscious and trips them up. It’s happened to me in the past.
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The most transformative three-part transition: from (learning from teachers) to (learning from peers) to (learning from teaching it yourself). All people experience first part, some never experience the latter (most do, though, in the form of parenting or mentoring)
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Nah learning from teaching it yourself is highly overrated and a pattern of arrested development/dead end rather than the 3rd act
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What, if anything do you expect would happen if one of the younger groups just made a direct skip to one of the older age groups learning methods?
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