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Originally Posted by gobbla
It all depends on what you're really trying to get out of it. I dorked around with some stuff on my own and did well enough to exercise and get a general feel for what was going on through trial and error. Being "non-competative" and without having a real measuring stick to say if you learned something or not makes it pretty hard to fail when you get down to it.
If you want to use it for something other than personal satisfaction, you're almost certainly going to need some sort of legitimate instruction. There's just too many nuances that you "need" to know in order to learn the skill in what ever discipline that you're trying to learn.
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I largely agree with your measuring stick metaphor, and I think that's what it comes down to. It's good to have one, other than just trying to improve. It can help you improve faster
Kuri and Ogedie I completely agree. It would be a rare case where someone would be so naturally intelligent and kinesthetically aware that they could advance further than anyone else.
I just wanted to point out that thinking for yourself in a creative way can definitely help, although intense structure is very good as well, not to mention a measuring stick and decent guru.
A math teacher was showing a class two impossible math problems one day, and a kid in the class was sleeping. He woke up at the end of the class and copied the problems down thinking it was the homework. It took him all week, and he couldnt figure one out, but he kept trying and figured at least one of them out, and took his homework to class. The teacher was stunned. He solved the problem. He didn't know it was impossible, the mind is powerful. That's all I wanted to point out.
Ko67, it is a common way, not a good way, I agree.