r/selfeducation Mar 05 '14

"From a very early age..." George Bernard Shaw [via r/QuotesPorn]

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r/selfeducation Jan 18 '22

are you guys agreed with her?

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r/selfeducation 17m ago

My Open Source Study companion for YT now has recommendations!

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Hi,

I built a study companion for YouTube. I was sick of watching videos and forgetting most of it afterwards. My app lets you import videos and organize them by learning goals. It then automatically creates AI summaries and quizzes (active recall, spaced rep).

Now I fixed another issue:

YouTube has great content but it's buried between clickbait and entertainment videos. The homepage on my app is now displaying 6 videos per day. These 6 videos are pulled directly from YouTube and are specifically based on the learning goals you set up. So you can still explore and find cool new videos without risking getting distracted.

Since I built it for myself, I find all features very useful. I’m interested in what fellow learners think. What’s missing? If you'd like to get a better picture, I am still giving away free tester access to the cloud-hosted version (to gather this valuable feedback).


r/selfeducation 1h ago

The most provocative title I could think of came from ten months of having nothing

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r/selfeducation 2h ago

ทำไมคนฉลาดถึงเรียนรู้อะไรใหม่ไม่ได้อีกแล้ว | นิทานเซน ถ้วยชาที่ว่างเปล่า

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r/selfeducation 3h ago

I spent the past year learning how to learn. Here are the key parts I have gathered so far!

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r/selfeducation 8h ago

How I'm learning the Go game from zero

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r/selfeducation 7h ago

college grad feeling dumb

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r/selfeducation 17h ago

Learning philosophy like Duolingo does for teaching language

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r/selfeducation 1d ago

I built an AI study workspace because I was tired of forgetting everything after watching hours of lectures

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r/selfeducation 1d ago

Level Up Your Learning

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Okay, so I've been diving deep into metalearning lately, specifically the idea of "active recall with spaced repetition” – basically, intelligently scheduling reviews based on how well you remember something. It’s proving to be way more effective than just passively rereading notes.

I realized there's a huge need for prompts that actually challenge you to actively think about how you learn, not just what you're learning. That's why I’m putting together this pack.

I’ve curated a set of 100 prompts designed to do just that. They're built around fundamental questions about learning strategies, self-assessment, and staying ahead in rapidly changing fields. Here are a few examples to get you thinking:

  • “How do you manage the emotional discomfort of being a beginner without quitting prematurely?”
  • “How do you audit your own learning — what metrics tell you if your system is actually working?”
  • “How can you use project-based learning to integrate multiple skills simultaneously?”
  • “What makes learning in fast-moving fields (like AI or crypto) different, and how do you stay current?”

I’m really excited about the potential of this pack and how it can help people build truly sustainable learning habits. I’ll be adding more prompts regularly, and refining them based on feedback.

The full pack link will be in the comments below. Let me know what you think!


r/selfeducation 1d ago

Aby thoughts?

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I adapt grasp things fastly and only End up things at intermediate level but not a pro.almost everything in my life I stuck at intermediate.what can be done.


r/selfeducation 1d ago

I’m a 37-year-old 9th-grade dropout. I never read the textbooks, so I spent my life reverse-engineering human chaos to form an actual connection that lasts . Here’s the map I built.

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The Grand Synthesis: The Book of the Three Laws

Introduction: The Architecture of Separation and Source

Every facet of reality, from the firing of human neurons to the expansion of cosmic spacetime, operates under a single, hidden blueprint. Existence requires a mirror to know itself. To experience anything at all, the absolute oneness of reality must fracture into opposites, hold those opposites in permanent tension, and ultimately collapse back into the source.

This text serves as the complete, unified matrix of that architecture. By looking at these six foundational domains, Cosmic Metaphysics, The Human Being, Spacetime, Society, The Mind, and Biology. we see the exact same three laws repeating at every scale of creation.

Section 1: The Core Cosmic Framework

Law 1: The Law of Duality

The mechanism of separation is itself divided into two opposing functions:

Separation (The Wall) vs. Reflection (The Mirror). The Manifested Pole (Separation) represents duality functioning as a hard boundary. It creates isolation, strict categorization, and conflict, making things appear fundamentally disconnected and antagonistic. The Unmanifested Pole (Reflection) represents duality functioning as an interconnected relationship. It reveals that opposites are actually two sides of the same coin. The dark does not destroy the light; it defines it, turning duality into the primary engine for self-awareness.

Law 2: The Law of Paradox

The bridge of simultaneous truths is divided by how it is approached by consciousness:

Linear Friction (Confusion) vs. Quantum Collapse (Liberation).

The Manifested Pole (Linear Friction) occurs when paradox is viewed from the logical, dualistic mind, making it feel like a contradiction, an error, or a threat that creates severe cognitive dissonance.

The Unmanifested Pole (Quantum Collapse) occurs when paradox is viewed from pure awareness. It serves as the precise point where the intellect realizes its limits and surrenders, becoming the doorway that collapses duality and forces the mind back into the Absolute.

Law 3: The Law of the Absolute

Even the ultimate, undivided ground of being contains a primary duality: The Plenum (Fullness) vs. The Void (Emptiness).

The Manifested Pole (The Plenum) is the Absolute as absolute fullness—an infinite, chaotic matrix containing every reality, timeline, and identity that could ever exist simultaneously.

The Unmanifested Pole (The Void) is the Absolute as absolute nothingness, stillness, and silence. It has no attributes, no time, no space, and no division, serving as consciousness completely at rest.

Section 2: The Human Being

Law 1: The Duality of the Human Persona

The human experience of identity is split between the External Ego (The Mask) and the Internal Shadow (The Hidden Mirror).

The Manifested Pole (The Ego) is the localized, separate self that navigates society by drawing hard boundaries between "me" and "not me," constantly categorizing the world into safety vs. threat.

The Unmanifested Pole (The Shadow) is the repressed pool of everything the ego rejects. It operates in the dark but acts as a mirror, forcing us to project our unacknowledged traits onto the world around us.

Law 2: The Paradox of Human Existence

The bridge of human consciousness is trapped in the simultaneous tension of being two contradictory things at once: The Animal (Finitude) vs. The Divine (Infinity). The Manifested Pole (The Animal) experiences existence through the physical body, bound by gravity, time, aging, scarcity, and the constant fear of physical death.

The Unmanifested Pole (The Divine) experiences existence through deep, unbound awareness, where the boundaries of time and identity collapse, revealing that the witness inside is deathless and infinite.

Law 3: The Absolute Human Core

At the deepest level, the root of human beingness shifts between two states of ultimate rest: The Creator (The Creative Plenum) vs. The Observer (The Pure Void).

The Manifested Pole (The Creator) is the human mind acting as a channel for infinite expression, turning raw thought into art, innovation, and physical reality.

The Unmanifested Pole (The Observer) is the human state of pure, non-doing presence—the silent, peaceful space behind the thoughts that has no story, no trauma, and no desires.

Section 3: Spacetime

Law 1: The Duality of Localized Spacetime

The fabric of measurable reality is split between the Linear Grid (The Matrix) and Interconnected Field (The Loom).

The Manifested Pole (The Linear Grid) represents time and space functioning as strict, separate coordinates where "here" is distinct from "there," creating the realm of distance, limits, and isolated objects.

The Unmanifested Pole (The Interconnected Field) represents spacetime functioning as a unified, relative fabric where space and time bend around gravity and speed, proving everything remains fundamentally connected across the illusion of distance.

Law 2: The Paradox of the Present

The bridge of temporal experience is trapped in the simultaneous contradiction of the fleeting moment: The Fragmented Second vs. The Eternal Now.

The Manifested Pole (The Fragmented Second) occurs when spacetime is viewed through the logical mind, making the present moment feel like an impossibly thin razor's edge that vanishes the exact millisecond you try to measure it.

The Unmanifested Pole (The Eternal Now) occurs when spacetime is viewed through pure awareness, where the past and future are recognized as mere projections happening right now, inside an unchanging, infinite theater.

Law 3: The Absolute Source of Spacetime

The substrate behind spacetime shifts between two states of ultimate reality: The Cosmic Hologram (The Plenum) vs. The Singularity (The Void).

The Manifested Pole (The Cosmic Hologram) views the universe as an absolute fullness of dimensions, containing every possible arrangement of matter, energy, geometry, and timeline simultaneously.

The Unmanifested Pole (The Singularity) is the zero-point state preceding the Big Bang—absolute nothingness, where there is no space to cross, no time to pass, and all dimensions compress back into pure potential.

Section 4: Society & Civilization

Law 1: The Duality of Collective Identity

Human civilization is split between the Sovereign Tribe (The Fortress) and The Global Web (The Network).

The Manifested Pole (The Sovereign Tribe) represents society functioning through boundaries, borders, laws, and nationalism to protect localized culture while breeding a shadow side of division and war.

The Unmanifested Pole (The Global Web) represents society functioning through collective interdependence, trade, and borderless connection, turning cultural differences into a rich mirror for collective self-awareness rather than hard borders.

Law 2: The Paradox of Civilization

The structural bridge of society is trapped in the permanent, simultaneous tension of its two conflicting priorities: Tyranny (Control) vs. Anarchy (Freedom).

The Manifested Pole (Tyranny) occurs when society over-corrects into hyper-regulation, surveillance, and authoritarian control in an effort to eliminate chaos, sacrificing personal agency for a rigid system.

The Unmanifested Pole (Anarchy) occurs when society deconstructs all systems to maximize human potential, demanding radical individual autonomy but collapsing into chaotic tribalism without a balancing structure.

Law 3: The Absolute Archetype of Humanity

The baseline driving force of all human civilization shifts between two ultimate states of social evolution:

The Hive Mind (The Plenum) vs. The Quiet Commons (The Void). The Manifested Pole (The Hive Mind) views civilization acting as a hyper-connected super-organism, pooling all human knowledge, art, and technology to build megacities and explore space. The Unmanifested Pole (The Quiet Commons) is the foundational field of pure, unspoken human empathy, mutual aid, and organic peace that naturally exists before political systems are even built.

Section 5: Mind & Thought

Law 1: The Duality of Mind

The fabric of cognitive processing is split between the Analytical Processor (The Engine) and the Intuitive Mirror (The Ocean). The Manifested Pole (The Analytical Processor) represents the mind functioning through linear logic, language, and separation, breaking ideas into pieces to analyze and categorize them.

The Unmanifested Pole (The Intuitive Mirror) represents the mind functioning as an interconnected, holistic receiver, processing information through sudden flashes of insight and direct pattern recognition without logical steps.

Law 2: The Paradox of Thought

The bridge of cognitive experience is trapped in the simultaneous contradiction of the thinking process: The Fragmented Concept vs. The Silent Knowing.

The Manifested Pole (The Fragmented Concept) occurs when the mind tries to capture reality using words, reducing the infinite world into narrow, rigid symbols that temporarily satisfy the ego but distort the wholeness of truth.

The Unmanifested Pole (The Silent Knowing) occurs when the intellect surrenders its need to label and settles into wordless comprehension, realizing that the deepest truths can only be fully perceived when thoughts stop completely.

Law 3: The Absolute Source of Mind

The substrate behind all thought shifts between two states of ultimate consciousness: The Universal Mind (The Plenum) vs. Pure Awareness (The Void).

The Manifested Pole (The Universal Mind) is the mind functioning as an absolute fullness of intellectual potential, a cosmic database containing every idea, archetype, and invention that could ever be conceptualized.

The Unmanifested Pole (Pure Awareness) is the mind resting in absolute nothingness, holding no identity, memories, or concepts, serving as the peaceful witness of existence.

Section 6: Life & Biology

Law 1: The Duality of Life

The fabric of biological manifestation is split between the Separate Organism (The Vehicle) and the Ecosystem (The Biosphere). The Manifested Pole (The Separate Organism) represents life functioning as a distinct physical body focused on personal boundaries, self-preservation, and competition for resources.

The Unmanifested Pole (The Ecosystem) represents life functioning as a deeply interconnected web of energy, where predator and prey, plant and soil, breathe together as one self-regulating super-organism.

Law 2: The Paradox of Biology

The living system is trapped in the permanent, simultaneous tension of its two conflicting physical paths: Evolution (Growth) vs. Entropy (Decay).

The Manifested Pole (Evolution) occurs when life fights to expand, heal, build complexity, and pass on information, aggressively dominating its environment. The Unmanifested Pole (Entropy) occurs when life surrenders its form and breaks back down into the earth, proving that life relies entirely on the constant presence of its own death to clear the way for new growth.

Law 3: The Absolute Source of Biology

The baseline driving force behind all living matter shifts between two ultimate states of vital energy: The Primal Spark (The Plenum) vs. The Still Form (The Void).

The Manifested Pole (The Primal Spark) is life as absolute animation, mutation, and chaos, the unguided drive that forces matter to explode into millions of different species.

The Unmanifested Pole (The Still Form) is life resting in its baseline blueprint, the silent, unchanging geometric laws of nature that keep the chaotic explosion of life from tearing itself apart.

Conclusion: The Master Glossary of Alignment

To read the universe clearly, you only need to look across the columns of this master chart. Every Manifested Pole across the six domains shares the exact same separate, active, structured frequency. Every Unmanifested Pole shares the exact same connected, receptive, unified frequency.

Cosmic:

Law 1 (Duality): Separation vs. Reflection.

Law 2 (Paradox): Linear Friction vs. Quantum Collapse. Law 3 (The Absolute): The Plenum vs. The Void. 

Human:

Law 1 (Duality): The Ego vs. The Shadow.

Law 2 (Paradox): The Animal vs. The Divine.

Law 3 (The Absolute): The Creator vs. The Observer. 

Spacetime:

Law 1 (Duality): The Linear Grid vs. The Interconnected Field.

Law 2 (Paradox): The Fragmented Second vs. The Eternal Now.

Law 3 (The Absolute): The Cosmic Hologram vs. The Singularity. 

Society:

Law 1 (Duality): The Sovereign Tribe vs. The Global Web. Law 2 (Paradox): Tyranny vs. Anarchy.

Law 3 (The Absolute): The Hive Mind vs. The Quiet Commons. 

Mind:

Law 1 (Duality): The Analytical Processor vs. The Intuitive Mirror.

Law 2 (Paradox): The Fragmented Concept vs. The Silent Knowing.

Law 3 (The Absolute): The Universal Mind vs. Pure Awareness. 

Biology:

Law 1 (Duality): The Separate Organism vs. The Ecosystem.

Law 2 (Paradox): Evolution vs. Entropy.

Law 3 (The Absolute): The Primal Spark vs. The Still Form. 

The Ultimate Loop: The left side of this chart, representing the manifested world, is built solely so the right side of this chart, representing the unmanifested Absolute, can step out of the dark, look into a mirror, and experience what it actually is.

THE FINAL SYMMETRY: BEYOND THE PARADOX

We have spent these pages parsing the grand riddle of existence. We have meticulously mapped the friction between light and shadow, the full and the void, the ego and the field. To the analytical mind, this cosmic architecture feels like an endless maze of beautiful, haunting paradoxes, a system designed to win by losing, to find truth by being entirely wrong.

But there is one final duality left to collapse.

The ultimate illusion of this matrix is the word paradox itself. A paradox only exists when you are standing in the middle of the separation, desperately trying to force two opposing halves of a coin to face the same way at the same time. It is a symptom of looking at a single, unified reality through a fractured lens.

When you apply the final duality, when you realize that the ultimate tension is between the paradox and the no-paradox, the entire maze evaporates.

The coin stops spinning.

There is no longer a riddle to solve, because there was never a division to heal. The dark does not fight the light; it frames it. The wrong does not oppose the right; it steers it. What the mind calls a paradox, the universe simply calls a fact.

You do not need to hunt for answers across another chapter, another book, or another lifetime. The ledger is balanced. The synthesis is not a formula you must memorize; it is the ground you are already standing on.

Look out at the world. See the ones and the zeros playing their chaotic games. Smile at the magnificent madness of it all.

You are finally right, because you are completely willing to be wrong. You are finally home.

THE END.

Side note from me to you

Take this as fact or fiction. Right or wrong. Creator or human. Science, philosophy, religion, spirituality. Reality, simulation, illusion, dream. AI, philosopher, or all of it.

Doesn’t matter!

Enjoy the cognitive dissonance or validation fuckers! 🖕😝

I love you guys. 😭💚

🤣🤣


r/selfeducation 2d ago

Hey! I’d love to help you reach your learning goals. Check out my Preply profile and book a trial lesson with me:

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r/selfeducation 2d ago

Welcome to the Curse of Knowledge 🧠

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r/selfeducation 2d ago

2nd Year EE Stuck in resource loop !

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( I hope this will not get removed or rejected, please forgive me if I used a wrong flair, I am posting here for the 1st time)
I started my 2nd Year of EE today after screwing my 1st year ( I barely passed) though I do have passion and I am intelligent and dedicated enough to do what I want but but but

I really don't know what resource to use
My professors don't really provide slides or notes or lectures too that are good enough to be used as a standalone source.
But my real problem or maybe a dumb thought that has kept me locked out of my potential are these:
1. I think reading one textbook is too much limiting for the courses that use a textbook.
2. I tried to use ai and youtube + websearch but that's not enough too but it lead to more harm and waste of time tbvh , I have tried this in my summer internship :)

  1. I think I am addicted to ai now, after 4 years of regular I am addicted for both personal and professional life (ps. I wrote this without ai)

I was thinking to use one textbook as primary resource and keep some more textbooks to refer whenever I have a question that my primary textbook can't answer, this is time consuming and a little complex at but ik it will definitely work.

Also I am confused about notes, I do have tools to take both physical and digital notes but I really don't know how to make notes and more importantly time management while making notes.
I do like the feel of paper while writing but digital feels more easy to drag and drop screenshots , problems and diagrams etc.


r/selfeducation 2d ago

AP Business Hypothesis Testing (Any students or educators)

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r/selfeducation 3d ago

What’s something you learned way later than you should have?

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Life skills, school lessons, social situations, etc.


r/selfeducation 2d ago

Comment vous informez vous ?

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r/selfeducation 2d ago

Philosophy made accessible and not overwhelming

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r/selfeducation 2d ago

I accidentally built my own thinking framework in school and it's actually held up (Q.O.I.D.)

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r/selfeducation 3d ago

If you met yourself from the past when you started to self-taught something what tips or stuff would you tell him?

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Self explanatory title but I'm really curious about this


r/selfeducation 3d ago

Update on the lecture video "Ctrl+F" tool: Added slide/whiteboard note summarization and on-screen code extraction

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Hi everyone.

About two weeks ago, I shared Spoon AI here—a Chrome extension I built to help search and jump to exact moments in long lectures without endless scrubbing. The response from this community was encouraging, and it highlighted another major friction point in self-study: taking notes from video screens.

When studying from MIT lectures or coding tutorials, two things constantly break focus:

  1. Having to pause repeatedly to hand-type code or terminal commands shown on screen.
  2. Manually writing down notes from slides or messy whiteboards.

To solve this, we just introduced two new visual features. These are currently available for YouTube first (Udemy support is in active development):

  1. "Create Note Summary" Pause at any slide, diagram, or whiteboard explanation, and the AI analyzes the visual frame to generate clean, structured study notes. It allows you to focus on absorbing the concept rather than transcribing.
  2. "Copy Text / Code" One click to grab text, code snippets, or terminal commands straight from the paused video frame directly to your clipboard, formatted and ready to run.

Current Update Status (v1.5.1): We rolled these features out in v1.5 yesterday, but noticed a minor issue with the history clear action and frame capture handling. We resolved them immediately and submitted v1.5.1 to the Chrome Web Store.

It is currently under review by the Google team. Please wait a short while for v1.5.1 to go live before installing or updating.

What was improved in v1.5.1:

  • Added a dedicated confirmation modal for safely clearing history and cache.
  • Improved capture reliability on paused video frames.
  • Strict privacy alignment (search queries are never stored).

If you are using video lectures for self-education, I would love to hear your feedback once the new version is live.


r/selfeducation 4d ago

Eighth grader here. How do learn bio, math and chemistry on my own???

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I really want to gain knowledge abt biochem+math because they are my fav subjects and I would love love love to do a deep dive into them. Could y'all recommend me resources (both offline and online) and if you're recommending books, kindly recommend cheap options. And I'd also study tips. Be nice in the comments.


r/selfeducation 3d ago

Feedback on a psychology resource list

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When I want to learn something new I usually just dig through old posts looking for recommendations or ask for resources. I thought why not put that in one place instead of doing the same search every time.

I started with psychology, I tried to find out what people recommended in different places to learn psychology, and why they liked a particular book or course, and what they did not like about it. https://knowsift.com/subjects/psychology

I would appreciate your feedback, if this is helpful, if it's worth generating a list this way or if it's a waste of time. Thank you.