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This hits a nerve.

One's who are really learning aren't calling it out - look at kids learning to bike, new parents, early artists, new dancers, new swimmers, sports folks, researchers, journalists.

And there's pseudo learning, characterized by distinct effort to call the learning out. Reading 200 books a year, twitter, podcasts, hacker news. All cargo cult symbolism and consumerism.

Within real learning too, there's learning for a purpose and another just for the heck of it. Learning investments vs learning to run a marathon.

Learning sales is way different than learning piano, One where you learn mostly by doing, another by observing the delta between what is said and what actually happens.

Every form of learning is uncomfortable in its own way.



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