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I think anyone reading the book with a determination to drop their intuitions in favor of the book's concepts will find it much easier going, and tremendously worthwhile.

I get why readers don't do that. There is very little written so well that it deserves that trust. Generally we have to step back from something and ask "what does that mean? how do I reframe that into something I can understand?" Because the material's models are too poorly thought out to be useful or too poorly communicated to be discovered. Trying to adopt such models is futile.

But for me, SICP is one of those rare books where I am better off trying to absorb its frameworks, rather than constantly trying to reframe the material into something I understand.

When I step back and _think_ the way the book suggests, the problems solve very quickly. When I try to get a solution from some combination of my intuitions and known tricks, I thrash about endlessly.

It is a very carefully written presentation of profound and important ideas, and deserves to be approached differently than the vast majority of books.