What are your thoughts about this?
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Do you agree that reading more books will give you more knowledge. I'm watching this guy on youtube Tai Lopez. And he's saying the more you read, the more successful you will be. Knowledge is power. I just want to hear your thoughts on this.
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Absolutely. Especially if you read non-fiction books you'll end up just absorbing facts like a sponge if you're interested in it. Case in point: As someone who cannot play sport and pretty much cannot go out and socialise I spent most of my early childhood reading books and playing with construction toys and other things that promoted imagination and thought. It's really only hitting me now that you can't expect people to know about things like science (I didn't realise that it's not reasonable to expect everyone in year 11 in a grammar school to know not only what E=MC^2 stands for but also what it means) and the only reason I do is that I always read about academic things. Especially if you want to do anything academic in later life you can't do much better than reading, especially if you're interested in what you're reading.
Reading keeps your mind at work it also absorbs what you read. The more you use parts of your brain the stronger that part will get. Like I said your brain will absorb what you read, that is why it is better to read a book on a subject than watch a video on that same subject. So keep reading, "Knowledge is power"
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Reading is a good start, but better is putting what you read into practice.
Successful people get that way by DOING.
Successful people get that way by DOING.
True, but people who do (things that matter, I'm not talking about doing in order to learn) without knowing are at least as bad as people who know without doing because the former can make things worse in ways they can't possibly understand and are unlikely to help.
When learning, I think it is important to both do and learn (read), but ideally reading first so that you know what you are doing and don't get completely confused and learn things in a haphazard way where you miss stuff.
When learning, I think it is important to both do and learn (read), but ideally reading first so that you know what you are doing and don't get completely confused and learn things in a haphazard way where you miss stuff.
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I can read recipes until I go blind, but until I actually start cooking the recipes I will go hungry and I won't really learn the art and science of cooking. Starting out by trying new recipes, with little to no experience, I will make a lot of mistakes. And if I really am motivated to improve myself the mistakes give experience of what not to do.
C++ is the pretty much the same. Reading books is only part of the process. Actually creating code, adapting existing code or something from scratch, and learning from failure gives one knowledge and experience.
C++ is the pretty much the same. Reading books is only part of the process. Actually creating code, adapting existing code or something from scratch, and learning from failure gives one knowledge and experience.
yes, but if you had no idea how food works, then randomly putting stuff together and doing random things with it won't help. Of course you need a balance but I personally think that a deep theoretical knowledge is necessary for creating very large projects, and can cut down a lot of hassle (you are after all learning from the experiences of countless other people) whereas just knowing the basics and trying to do a huge project based on things you think you know (but might well be wrong) is just going to end up wit you getting stuck and having to go back to basics.
What does that have to do with academic learning vs doing so as to gain experience as a way of learning?
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