If you steamroll through a context you don't learn from it.

2024-05-27 · Bits and Bobs 5/27/24

If you steamroll through a thing, you overpower the constraints and don't learn.

It's when you flutter through it, dancing in the eddies, that you absorb the constraints and knowhow.

Learning is hard, it's being buffeted around, caught up in disconfirming evidence that you can't ignore.

It's frustrating, but necessary for growth.

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