How to Learn Everything: The MasterClass Diaries
‘...By this point, I have realized that there are two kinds of teachers. Some focus on transmitting their skills. They seem to be saying to the student: “this is how to do what I do.” Others offer themselves as models to be imitated: “this is how I became who I am.”‘<p>This part struck me. For topics like computer science (or any science) we need more of the former, for anything related to the subjective experiences of creativity or even life, we need more of the latter. Even then, “this is how I became who I am,” can only get you so far, because you need to learn to become who you are and not someone else.