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Re:YouTube, the Jewel of the Internet by rcarr on Sunday April 23, 2023 @08:50PM (#35682392)
A guy a few years older than me at school was massively into maths and took out every book he could find from all the local libraries. When he finally arrived at Cambridge University to study, he ended up going to third year lectures because he already knew all the material in the first and second year classes. He went on to do a Phd in maths there. Imagine if he had access to YouTube. He probably would have ended up being capable of jumping straight into the Phd on arrival.
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Re:YouTube, the Jewel of the Internet by TMWNN on Sunday April 23, 2023 @10:10PM (#35682919)
I've heard that reading about a subject for 30 minutes a day will, in six months, make you among the world's experts.
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Re:YouTube, the Jewel of the Internet by rossjudson on Monday April 24, 2023 @12:16AM (#35683597)
Probably won't work for playing piano. Unlikely to work for anything involving problem solving, because...you gotta solve problems, not read about solving problems.
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Re:YouTube, the Jewel of the Internet by cipheredStones on Monday April 24, 2023 @02:02AM (#35684165)
In what subjects will 90 hours of reading - a little more than two work-weeks' worth - make you a world expert?
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Re:YouTube, the Jewel of the Internet by komali2 on Monday April 24, 2023 @02:22AM (#35684271)
Where did you hear this? Was there any examples provided of people that have done this successfully? I'm extremely skeptical of this lol
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Re:YouTube, the Jewel of the Internet by FredPret on Monday April 24, 2023 @04:40AM (#35685075)
Top 0.1% of the general public, certainly. One of the go-to experts in the world? No
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