@MariaHarmon what a fantastic question this is! I'm sure there are as many answers for this as there are community members, but for me self-education involves...
1) Looking around at my peers/friends/colleagues, thinking about the aspects of their jobs that I'm a teeny bit jealous about (think working flexible hours, being challenged with a variety of tasks throughout the day, steady workflow etc.), and thinking of the skills I might need to work on to get some of that goodness in my own professional life (taking the above examples: mastering technological tools that make it easier to work remotely, broadening my skillset to include related functions that would also be useful to my clients, learning how to rock social media to broaden my professional network, etc.).
2) Messing up. Learning from my mistakes by figuring out what I should have known and going out and getting that thing, whatever it is - could be a skill or tool but also an approach or mindset.
Those aren't specific tools (classes, books, online courses, etc.) but I guess for me it's helpful to start from there. How about you? How do you figure out what you don't know but need to know, so you can better self-educate?
