Learn it in your body
I heard the best quote last night:
“Knowledge is a rumor until it lives in the body.”1
And then the character in the show we were watching elaborated:
“You don’t really know something until your body knows it.”
This is the reason we work and work and work at our craft. To get past the point where we’re thinking about the engineering side, to the point where it’s muscle memory. Because it’s then — not only then, but mostly then, I think — that we can interact with the work on a purely emotional level.
We work to achieve mastery of the left-brain tasks in order to give the right side of our brain the space it needs to do its best work. And we can only get there — fully get there — by putting in the hours / days / weeks / months / years.
This is why I call my work a practice.
One day at a time — jamie
This quote is abstracted from the original saying, which comes from the Asaro tribe of Indonesia and Papua New Guinea: “Knowledge is only a rumor until it lives in the muscle.”