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Immersion and time
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Manav Rathi<br>
Sep, 2024
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<p>We can read very fast. But understanding takes time.</p>
<p>
Years, if we're lucky. And it is never clear if the understanding is complete
either. One could say that there is something new to learn always, but that's a
not quite correct: I do sometimes reach points for very specific things where I
understand them, and more information about them is noise at best.
</p>
<p>So, for very specific domains, there is an end. But that end takes time.</p>
<p>
Sometimes, one can understand at the speed of reading, but that is only when one
has already understood all the prerequisites.
</p>
<p>
Once a witty idea arose and stay stuck in my head for a while - <i>that one can
only understand books that one has already understood</i>. That is, the purpose
of the written word is to make the understanding manifest, but the understanding
itself is not coming through the words.
</p>
<p>
Like most wit, I now think that is incorrect. If one has understood the
necessary prerequisites, sometimes a sentence is all it takes to unplateau to
the next plane of understanding.
</p>
<hr>
<p>I haven't found shortcuts to understanding.</p>
<p>
Since it takes too long, sometimes I indulge in rituals, e.g. writing things
down by hand on paper. I don't know if it helps, and I suspect it doesn't, but
such rituals sometimes help stay immersed. And the only road to understanding
I've found is immersion.
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<p>Immersion, and time.</p>
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