I never really studied - as in proper sitting down, reading things from cover to cover, taking ntes etc. Not even at University.

I got through school by skim-reading my notes the night before the exam and then sleeping with the notes under my pillow in the belief that my brain would absorb them in my sleep...

At University I generally did everything a day or two before it was due in. Or if I was really bored. I generally just work better under pressure and a lot of what I did at University was covering what I'd already done at A-Level. I admit I really just breezed a lot of my modules by paraphrasing. Just picking up a book and looking at the bibliography or glossary and finding a segment that said roughly what I wanted it too and then paraphrasing it so suit my argument.

I think in total I only probably read about 2 books cover to cover at University. Most of it was very sociology and philosophy based and after a while I just grew tired of reading overly cynical stuff by grumpy old men that never really answered anything despite always asking why.

As for things I've personally taught myself outside of school or University it depends how passionate I am. For example with Photoshop I've mostly just learned through trial and error and playing around with everything. If I'm looking for a very specific effect I'll google for tutorials. With coding I generally self taught myself by looking at what other people have done, breaking it, putting it back together and figuring out why it didn't work before breaking it again etc.

I've always been more of a hands on learner - I love theory stuff and have learnt a lot of theory stuff too but theory really depends more on how it's delivered as to whether it sinks in or not.

But yeah when it came to school I left far too much to the last minute than I'm willing to admit