[0:00] why does learning require practice reading listening and thinking let you learn consciously but most of your brain power is subconscious think of your conscious mind like what shows up on your computer screen and your subconscious as everything happening behind the scenes computers do millions of calculations that aren't displayed on screen your brain is literally a computer that's why introspection is hard learning requires getting knowledge into your subconscious practice does that telling your subconscious what to do [0:30] doesn't work well if you didn't share a language with someone you'd show them how to do things practice shows skills to your subconscious practice also lets you make incorrect errors you can test whether your ideas work and iterate