I suspect the knowledge you get from reading someones writings is very different than the knowledge you get from working with them or them teaching you. When you work or learn closely with someone they can see your reasoning processes and correct them when they go astray at the right point when they are still newly formed and not too ingrained. Otherwise it relies too much on luck. When in someone intellectual career should you read OB, too early it won’t mean too much lacking the necessary background and too late you will be inured against it (assuming it is the right way to go!).
Autodidacts are going to be most intellectually useful when you need to break new ground and the methodologies of the past aren’t the way to solve the problems needed to be solved.
I suspect the knowledge you get from reading someones writings is very different than the knowledge you get from working with them or them teaching you. When you work or learn closely with someone they can see your reasoning processes and correct them when they go astray at the right point when they are still newly formed and not too ingrained. Otherwise it relies too much on luck. When in someone intellectual career should you read OB, too early it won’t mean too much lacking the necessary background and too late you will be inured against it (assuming it is the right way to go!).
Autodidacts are going to be most intellectually useful when you need to break new ground and the methodologies of the past aren’t the way to solve the problems needed to be solved.