[yukichan]

As bad as it may seem I've found that saying incorrect things results in more learning than staying quiet so I often say incorrect things but things I think are true. I'm embarrassed when I'm wrong but I always learn from it. I also ask "why?" a lot and "what is that?" if it makes sense to (or just Google it later). I learn this way. It helps solve ignorance. It doesn't make me a faster thinker which is something I may not be able to fix, and it doesn't help improve my motivation to learn more which I need to do more of instead of playing video games or creating things.

[kbenson]

Writing a book to teach other people should not be considered first and foremost a way to learn a subject. You may learn when corrected, but at the expense of the readers that read the mistakes and did not see corrections. This is more important the more advanced or important the subject.

I would not write a book on structural engineering to learn the subject or become an expert. The stakes for the misinformation being spread are high.

[tptacek]

I am exactly the same way.