Andrea de la Cruz, Author at Global English Editing

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Psychology says people who educated themselves through curiosity instead of classrooms solve problems in a fundamentally different way that formal education can’t replicate

Andrea de la Cruz March 13, 2026

The way my father taught himself to fix everything in our house wasn’t a workaround for lacking formal training — it was a completely different operating system for encountering the unknown, and I didn’t understand that until I watched my own daughter try to solve a problem no one had taught her to solve.

Psychology says people who educated themselves through curiosity instead of classrooms solve problems in a fundamentally different way that formal education can’t replicate

Andrea de la Cruz March 13, 2026

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Psychology says people who educated themselves through curiosity instead of classrooms solve problems in a fundamentally different way that formal education can’t replicate

Psychology says people who educated themselves through curiosity instead of classrooms solve problems in a fundamentally different way that formal education can’t replicate

I watched my dad work sixty-hour weeks for forty years so we could have what he never did — and he died at 68 having never once prioritized his own happiness, and I’m terrified I’m doing the exact same thing with different vocabulary

Psychology says parents who can’t stop helping their adult children aren’t being loving — they’re unconsciously protecting themselves from the terror of becoming unnecessary

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