Autonomy
It is likely to be the best and most difficult thing to achieve with anything you learn.
When you’re autonomous, you do anything by yourself. You do not copy or let others do it for you.
When you’re autonomous, you’ll fail, and fail again until you fail better (Samuel Beckett), but you’ll eventually succeed with your resilient mind, wholeheartedness, and bare hands.
When you’re autonomous, you do it for yourself, but you’re not by yourself. Our autonomy interrelated with other autonomies and the result of the uniqueness each perspective brings to any problem leads to truly creative work.
About Miguel Panao
I am a Professor at the University of Coimbra in Mechanical Engineering. I am also author of books in the fields of environmental ethics and Science and Religion. From the several research projects, this site is personal and dedicated to the search for the best approaches, tools, techniques to improve scientific productivity.