A friend of mine has that same attitude and it always bug me because if me and him woulda read one book each and then teach each other what we learned, that would’ve a lot of the time end up saving both of us time, and we would’ve learned things better and being able to bounch ideas off each other and help explain things. Even more so if we were three people who read one book each and taught each other as opposed to reading three books each.
That’s actually one of my biggest regrets in life. That I didn’t have enough of a community to learn from and teach. Trying to learn art for example, and programming, was insanely hard. For art I was on my own, for programming everyone was so freaking macho that we weren’t really teaching each other (and when we started doing it just a little, things got better not worse). Same goes for roleplaying with that awful cult of GM secrecy in the nineties making sure everyone stunk at GM:ing and no-one getting better. And making music? There I did have a lot of people to learn with and ask and answer to and lo and behold I got a lot better at that a lot quicker than the toughing-it-out-alone type skills.
And when I belatedly hopped online due to pandemic-induced loneliness in 2020 even at the old dog trick age of 40 I rapidly learned more at a greater rate than I had ever done before and I hope others have been able to learn from me also.
So while a curious mind and as stack of man pages can go far, a group of curious minds working together can go even further.♥︎