WEBVTT Kind: captions Language: en-US 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.860 Why does learning require practice? 00:00:01.860 --> 00:00:04.740 Reading, listening and thinking let you learn   00:00:04.740 --> 00:00:07.800 consciously. But most of your  brainpower is subconscious. 00:00:08.520 --> 00:00:13.080 Think of your conscious mind like what shows up  on your computer screen, and your subconscious   00:00:13.080 --> 00:00:18.540 as everything happening behind the scenes.  Computers do millions of calculations that aren't   00:00:18.540 --> 00:00:23.580 displayed on screen. Your brain is literally  a computer. That's why introspection is hard. 00:00:24.120 --> 00:00:28.080 Learning requires getting knowledge into  your subconscious. Practice does that. 00:00:28.680 --> 00:00:32.700 Telling your subconscious what to do doesn't  work well. If you didn't share a language with   00:00:32.700 --> 00:00:37.200 someone, you'd show them how to do things.  Practice shows skills to your subconscious. 00:00:37.740 --> 00:00:43.200 Practice also lets you make and correct errors.  You can test whether your ideas work and iterate.