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734 Psychology says people who educated themselves through reading and curiosity instead of formal degrees solve problems in a fundamentally different way — and these 8 cognitive patterns explain why classrooms can’t replicate it

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Christian Kelly @ Silicon Canals · 03/08/2026 18:00 EDT

Psychology says people who educated themselves through reading and curiosity instead of formal degrees solve problems in a fundamentally different way — and these 8 cognitive patterns explain why classrooms can’t replicate it

While formal education teaches you to think inside carefully constructed boxes, self-taught learners accidentally discover there were never any boxes at all—just patterns everyone else was too classroom-conditioned to see.

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