My partner and I are both trying to learn new skills for career pivots — she's learning data science, I'm learning UX design — and we keep getting in these weird competitive dynamics where we compare our learning speeds and methods, and now we're both more anxious about our progress than when we started alone.
More people experience this than they realize.
Two people attempting parallel learning journeys are unconsciously sabotaging each other's metacognitive development through comparison and competition.
“Where Are You with Learning to learn — meta-cognition?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.