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Reconsidering your beliefs with Tara Westover

ReThinking

CHAPTER

How I Learned to Teach Myself

"I started waking up early in the morning, trying to teach myself trigonometry," she says. "Everything about life is designed to be distracting and everyone is trying to pull you in a million different directions." The author was inspired by her older brother who taught himself everything he needed to know before going off to college. Some people are extremely skilled at teaching themselves; others flounder.

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