Experience

It took me a very long time to realize that reality is meant to be much more of an active experience. The reason why a lot of people can be very book start but still rather clueless is because they are missing experience.

It’s not enough to know things about reality. We need practice building the muscle memory and neural pathways related to physical movement and being personally involved in ongoing situations.

The armchair perspective can only be so valid. The game looks different when you’re playing it compared to someone watching on the stands.

And if you never physically play the game yourself, you can’t possibly understand it to its full extent.

You can offer value. Hell, you can offer insights that the players didn’t notice themselves. You can still become an expert in your own right.

But you can’t fully understand a thing until you experience it for yourself. And that’s true for all of the most important things in life.

Appreciation. Validation. Friendship. Love. God (if you’re into that sort of thing). These are all drastically different when described by some stranger on paper than what we feel in the depth of our souls when we experience these things.

This section will discuss the important of experience in understanding reality and exercises you can do to turn all that static knowledge into active understanding.