>>12619826Anon. I'll give you some advice, you can take it or leave it. I spent several years putting off self-studying. I put it off by trying to find the right way to do it, or the right text to read from, or create the perfect conditions to do it. After several years, I simply started slowly, not looking for the perfect textbook but a good enough textbook, not looking for the perfect study technique, but the good enough technique.
The good enough technique is to read whatever it is you need to read, maybe make notes, maybe highlight. Don't try to be perfect in your note taking, or perfect in your highlighting. The technique I started to use for my studies was to read a book or some comprehensive notes someone had given me, and if i read something I was almost certain I already knew then I crossed it out with pencil. That way, each time I read the book, or read the notes, I was only reading that which I had forgotten. I knew that if I wanted to, I could erase the pencil marks and start over.
The problem a lot of people on /sci/ seem to have is that they want to be knowledgeable, but they don't want to do the work. This becomes threads about collecting pdfs, or the right book to read, or the right way to study, or the right youtube videos to watch, or whether flashcards are useful, and so on, and so on.
The advice can be summarized. If you want to study and self-teach, then study and self-teach first. Once you find you are making a lot of progress, then you can figure out ways to be more efficient and effective.
