Autodidacts often develop unhealthy fixations on 1 self-chosen teacher at a time. Hedgehoggy teacher-centric religiosity as studentship.
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the unhealthy part is the stalker-y relation with the teacher (even if teacher is dead)
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What would you call the converse? Scatterbrained teacher worship? Polyguruism? ;)
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Altucher. Ferriss. Ramit. Taleb. It was with Taleb that I became aware of this. Ramit is blissfully human. Ferriss/Altucher are porn.
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Man , why you gotta break my mental barriers all the time. Now I have to go look at other sources of learning
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Provided they don't lurch from one mutually incompatible dogma to another, the immersion can be valuable -- adopting a new perspective fully
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I've observed lots of exploitative student/mentor ships among photo freelancers. The student is a rev source and never levels up.







