One of the advantages of formal education over autodidact is that at some point 10-20 years later you realize you learned everything the wrong way, blame your teachers, and start to fix the damage. Self-taught people have no one else to blame but themselves, so they often don’t.
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also the topological structure of one's body of knowledge is completely different: the formal curriculum is legible to the extent that it is literally written down; the autodidact's learning process is associative and largely tacit
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This is related to the "make your beliefs pay rent" idea- if you structure things so that what you self-teach, *will* pay off or harm you quickly, you can more reliably iterate. Avoid "learning" things that don't get put into practice! (Or: Try things out when you "learn" them!)
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