Reading About a Skill Is Not the Same as Practicing It

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Propositional knowledge — what you can read, hear, or memorize — is real and useful, but it cannot bridge the gap to performance. You can know the principles of balance and countersteering and still fall off a bicycle, because the perceptual and motor patterns only form through direct, repeated sensory confrontation. Language is too coarse to transmit them.

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