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Comment author: John_Maxwell_IV 06 July 2013 08:58:32AM 1 point [-]

When you're young, you have to give them a good long fair shake.

Could you offer supporting arguments?

Comment author: David_Gerard 06 July 2013 09:16:41AM *  0 points [-]

When you're young, you're still building even the roughest map of the territory.

Comment author: John_Maxwell_IV 06 July 2013 06:37:24PM 1 point [-]

Wouldn't that suggest reading small portions of many books rather than large portions of a few books?

Comment author: David_Gerard 06 July 2013 07:49:51PM 1 point [-]

Maybe, but I think you need to get deep into at least a few things so you know what deep looks like. You need to know at least a bit of Level 0 before you really get Level 1, 2, 3.

Comment author: John_Maxwell_IV 06 July 2013 11:12:00PM 2 points [-]

Maybe, but I think you need to get deep into at least a few things so you know what deep looks like.

Interesting. My strategy for independent study of technical material used to be to understand everything really well from multiple angles and as much as possible invent the material for myself, but then I switched to skimming and trying to get a general idea for things. It does seem plausible to me that this deeper understanding phase was pretty useful.

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