Bhogal distinguishes between two ways of acquiring understanding. You can rent a piece of wisdom by hearing it, nodding along, and forget it within a week. Or you can purchase it — engrave it into your nervous system — by paying the price of acting on it and absorbing the consequences when you don't. Pain is the engraving tool that integrates a lesson into a durable habit. If you haven't paid for a lesson yet, you don't actually own it.
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