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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.

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

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.

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

Thank you for listening to my therapy session.

In the old days, almost everyone in computing was a fast, effective problem solver. Back then, there was no money in computing, and often less money than other intellectual careers, so one only entered the field for the joy of it.

Fast forward, and now there is money in this field. And people who even dislike learning, or need guided learning, or even hate computing, are in the field. Many in the field just want a paycheck.

This is fine of course, one must eat, but this is why so many in the field today, think leaning a new language, or piece of software is some monumental task. After all, without guided learning, or without great frustration, it is for them! They cannot simply pick something up, computing related, quickly.

And to be fair, I've tried to hire, and there are innumerable candidates that literally have no idea how computers work. EG, in the old days, people would hack left right and center, spend their free time hacking, not to make their resume look better, or to gain experience, but because it was a joy and fun.

Now, that's harder to fine in a candidate, and there is no way to easily tell from a resume which manner of beast is before you.

So it's not you, it is the world that has changed. It just is, as it is now.

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.

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...

Is this AI generated?

completely self-taught use of ChatGPT, i assume

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.

I would like to open a topic about autodidacts.

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