Comments on: Is Reading Making You Stupid?

By: How Fresh Graduates Can Grow | Swaroop C H - India, Technology, Life Skills

How Fresh Graduates Can Grow | Swaroop C H - India, Technology, Life Skills — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 04:15:43 +0000

[...] For every hour that you read, you must gain 3 hours of experience – Scott H Young [...]

By: The Art of Unlearning | The Hub of Gen Y Unconvention

The Art of Unlearning | The Hub of Gen Y Unconvention — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 10:11:36 +0000

[...] The current education system is not only dismal at preparing students for real-life challenges, but also fantastic for teaching nasty habits through the idealized theories (that you never use in real-life unless you remain in academia). Sadly, unlearning bad habits is far harder than learning them. [...]

By: Al fred Hung

Al fred Hung — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 02:24:58 +0000

actually, there is another related topic that interested me……

“learn before apply” vs “learn during doing [discovery basis]“……

which one is better in terms of what criteria???

thx.

By: Michael Parus

Michael Parus — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:10:46 +0000

Just reading alone will make you smart at first, but after a long time this behavior will make you retarded. After all, what is it that you’re actually doing? You’re staring at a piece of paper. If you want your brain to work right you should spend more time tinkering. All the great inventors were tinkerers.

By: Leaving IonLab | Swaroop C H - India, Technology, Life Skills

Leaving IonLab | Swaroop C H - India, Technology, Life Skills — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:43:21 +0000

[...] For every hour that you read, you must gain 3 hours of experience. [...]

By: The Toyota Way: Book Review at Mark Needham

The Toyota Way: Book Review at Mark Needham — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 20:54:42 +0000

[...] I have learnt several times over the last few weeks and reminded me of something Scott Young posted questioning the value of reading when we’re not actually doing the things we’re reading [...]

By: Valeria | TimelessLessons

Valeria | TimelessLessons — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 12:52:21 +0000

Good post! Everything for me now comes down to “is it worth it? can I obtain tangible results from doing this and get a positive ROI?”

But I still keep my education alive because I know there’s a pot of gold to be gained in the future as a result.

By: Josefine

Josefine — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 00:17:59 +0000

“Reading also can make you feel like you’re making improvements. ” – very nice comment and so true. Reading all these trendy self-development books made me really feeling good and I thought I knew everything … I stepped a bit back with reading and focus more on the action part. Now I can say, yes, this is working for me and that doesn’t. So, I absolutely agree with you … if you have a goal or a dream, read about it, but you have to make the action part as well.

By: Make something happen! » Führt Lesen zur Verdummung?

Make something happen! » Führt Lesen zur Verdummung? — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 06:04:17 +0000

[...] Den englischen Original-Artikel findest Du hier: Is Reading Making You Stupid? – by Scott Young [...]

By: Dave Giancaspro

Dave Giancaspro — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 00:59:17 +0000

Being an electrical engineer I can tell you that I’d rather discuss circuits with someone whose built them than can describe them.

Experience is a very important, yet lost, part of engineering. When I was in college some engineering professors were frustrated mathematicians. They could derive the formulas to explain how any circuit works … they just couldn’t build a working circuit.

Dave