Do guys prefer self-help or to hire the skills of a professional / “expert”?
09-14-2015, 12:05 PMQuote: (09-14-2015 05:14 AM)Rush87 Wrote:
Depends on your style of learning. I spent 4 years at University learning from professionals and my knowledge was no greater than when I started. I spend 6 months working on my own project and my industry knowledge is higher than those who taught me.
My field was Film BTW. Sometimes it just depends on how you process information. If you're anything like me, you have to break it down and learn the rules by creating your own. Others can listen to someone talk for 45 minutes, process all the information and the perform exactly as they have been taught.
I think that you make a real good point about learning styles, and people learn in different ways. When I was first learning salsa dancing, for example, I wrote a lot down and then went to memorize and create a vision from my notes. Other guys would create videos or watch videos and other guys would just attempt to retain everything in their memory without videos or notes. Each style has a different trade off of time and retention and emphasizes certain aspects.. but in the end, the guy needed to be able to move his body, even when in the beginning of the learning process he may merely be thinking about it or creating a vision of such movement without actually doing it.
I have my doubts about the level to which you are asserting that you didn't learn anything from lectures for 4 years.. hahahahahahaha
Maybe there is something like a percentage split for how people learn? Like for example if you personally hear a lecture, you retain or learn 5 or 10%, depending on the lecture; however, if you engage in a project yourself, you learn or retain 60 to 70%.... or maybe some other variation of such percentages that would be different for each guy depending on the activity learned and his aptitudes and experiences?