Consuming is Only Helpful Insofar as it Enables You to Produce
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If you want to make serious progress learning to skate, you have to obtain a pair of skates and a surface to skate on, and then do skating exercises that gradually increase in difficulty.
You cannot learn to skate just by consuming skating videos and reading about it, even if you discuss with a friend afterwards.
You might be able to become somewhat of a critic that way, but not an actual skater.
This phenomenon completely obvious and generalizes to every single skill domain there is.
If you want to gain the ability to produce something ā a movement of your body, a movement of your mind, whatever it may be ā you have to practice producing, not just consuming.
Yet every so often I come across somebody who thinks they can have found a clever method to learn math without actually solving problems.
If you feel personally attacked by this then please understand that the whole reason Iām saying this is because I want to see you achieve your goals.
Passive consumption is not the way to do that.
Consuming is only helpful insofar as it enables you to produce.
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