After a particularly challenging learning environment, often the learnings feel obvious.

· Bits and Bobs 1/27/25
  • After a particularly challenging learning environment, often the learnings feel obvious.
    • You've battled through a chaotic environment and emerged much wiser.
    • But when you go to write down or communicate what you learned, everything you can think to say is things you already knew, or were obvious.
      • If you had read it in a book you'd say "well, duh."
    • Book learning is wildly different from experiential learning.
    • There is no way to substitute book learning for experience.
    • It's one thing to intellectually know something, it's another to feel it in your bones.
    • You can only feel it in your bones from experience.
    • The best way to learn is not by thinking, but by doing.
    • The only exception is if you take the time to think after the doing.
      • To squeeze out as much insight from your experiences as you can.