It is about acquiring information, in the right place, the muscles that can actually handle all the nuance that&#x27;s too much to think about and do correctly in real-time; people and culture are the same, no amount of reading will make you behave like a native, only time can do that and thus to the point of the thread, you can&#x27;t learn it until you encounter it and practice a while.  Intellectually thinking you know something isn&#x27;t the same as actually knowing something that takes more than brains.  What you know before practicing is wrong; practice is the actual learning and letting go of all the wrong stuff you knew.<p>At the root of this, you think all knowledge can be encoded in words and shared, and that&#x27;s the problem, it isn&#x27;t true. Many things cannot be shared via words, only experienced.