If You Want to Learn Something, Do One of These 3 Things

The three pathways of self-education

The Electronic Pen
5 min readOct 15, 2024
Photo by Avery Evans on Unsplash

If you want to make your life more fulfilling, you can do pretty much three things:

  • help others
  • start a project
  • learn

In this article, we’ll be focusing on that last one.

Now, when I say learning, I don’t mean school.

I mean when you, not your parents or your older sister or your grandma or your friend, but you, want to learn something, and so you learn it.

If you want a full guide on how to learn just about anything, check out this article:

This article, however, is less on the nitty-gritty steps and is more an overview on the three different ‘routes’ you can take on your self-learning journey.

Let’s jump in.

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