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Originally posted by MaggieL
My best tip on "Virtual/lifelong/peak learning" is: "learn how to surf the Web". People have dreamed of such a resource for ages ; now it's here on your doorstep at very low cost. Intelligent use of a search engine will teach you more about most subjects than almost anything else you can do in a classroom/office setting.
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I agree. Learning how search engines really work was one of the best things i've ever learned. Once you know how they work, it's much easier to use them to find what you need.
Once you learn that, you should learn how to sort the "wheat from the chaff", so to speak. Like, if you're searching for one thing in particular, you should be able to click a link, and size up whether or not a particular page might be what you're looking for within 2-3 seconds. If you just sit there reading every web page that google gives you, you will never find what you want. Newbies in real life are always telling met to slow down when i'm trying to find something for them, 'cause when I start looking, I skim pages extremely fast. It's not that i'm not looking very hard, it's just that with 1 million pages in results, you've got to make snap judgements.
After that, no bit of information is out of your reach. So then you've got to decide what it is you want to learn, and then go do it. I learned HTML and Linux completely through online resources.