Yeah, there's a lot of education you can't get just by reading books. Which is exactly why I ended up hiring a tutor.
Philosophy in specific is one long argument, 2500 years of new people showing up and saying, "Well that guy's wrong and I'm right." So much of what I needed to know to make sense of philosophical arguments is either hugely scattered or not written down at all. It was vastly more efficient just to hire an expert.
That's not to argue for the $150k education; I wouldn't know. But I don't think that taking life advice from fictional characters is much better.
Philosophy in specific is one long argument, 2500 years of new people showing up and saying, "Well that guy's wrong and I'm right." So much of what I needed to know to make sense of philosophical arguments is either hugely scattered or not written down at all. It was vastly more efficient just to hire an expert.
That's not to argue for the $150k education; I wouldn't know. But I don't think that taking life advice from fictional characters is much better.