I can learn something (become more capable at a task) without being able to describe in words what I learned unless I spend much more time and effort to create the verbal description than I spent to learn the thing. I’ve seen this happen enough times that it is very unlikely that I am mistaken although I haven’t observed how other people learn things closely enough to know whether what I just said generalizes to other people.
This has happened when I’ve learned a new skill in math, philosophy or “self-psychotherapy” i.e., it is not restricted to those skills (e.g., how to lift weights while minimizing the risk of injury) in which the advantage of a non-verbal means of communication (e.g., video) is obvious.
Something you just wrote makes me wonder whether what I just described is foreign to you.
I can learn something (become more capable at a task) without being able to describe in words what I learned unless I spend much more time and effort to create the verbal description than I spent to learn the thing. I’ve seen this happen enough times that it is very unlikely that I am mistaken although I haven’t observed how other people learn things closely enough to know whether what I just said generalizes to other people.
This has happened when I’ve learned a new skill in math, philosophy or “self-psychotherapy” i.e., it is not restricted to those skills (e.g., how to lift weights while minimizing the risk of injury) in which the advantage of a non-verbal means of communication (e.g., video) is obvious.
Something you just wrote makes me wonder whether what I just described is foreign to you.