Most developers call themselves self-taught.
Very few actually learn solo.
You learn from:
reading other people’s code
asking dumb questions
getting corrected in reviews
stealing patterns (and improving them)
The myth of the lone genius is just that — a myth.
Great developers grow through feedback, not isolation.
Learning is personal.
Progress is social.
– Serguey Asael Shinder
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Yes! We all have to spend some time alone banging our head against the keyboard from time to time, but we also need to interact with others' ideas to truly understand our own. This comes from reading code, reading books, watching videos, and many other forms. But it especially comes from working on real projects with other real people, where our ideas start to collide in interesting ways