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I found that they were a lot of subjects I’d learned a lot about without directly engaging in the thing itself.

Learning about a programming language, vs actually building stuff in it. Learning the grammatical patterns of a language without speaking it etc.

There’s lots of videos, books and apps which first and foremost want you to be engaged moreso than actually teach you how to do the thing. This sort of context can be really useful, but ultimately one claim the book makes is that the best way to learn is to get as close to doing the thing you want to learn how to do as possible.