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    1.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Jan 16

      "Wrist held tight but not too tight" is about the right wrist action to "snap" but without the racket flying out or so loose that energy transfer is weakened. The contradictory "Hold wrist tight!" advice was b/c the issue at the time was energy transfer, not topspin.

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    2.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Jan 16

      To get to "right" you have to go through a lot of "wrong". To build a skyscraper that touches the sky you ironically start by digging a very deep hole!

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    3.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Jan 16

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      The forehand loop is the primary attack stroke in TT. Even after grokking, there is still a 10,000 hr ceiling. "grok-entry" doesn't suddenly make you GOOD at the thing. It just makes it make SENSE. You stop tripping over yourself or running in circles.https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1350349271510392836?s=20 …

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      The only difference is that after grokking something the activity feels more joyful. No longer are you just going through the motions and just following the steps, you now have a SENSE of what fits and what doesn't. What's too advanced and what's too basic.
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    4.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Jan 16

      It's purely about linear improvement. Once you "grok" how to decorate a christmas tree you can decorate it over and over again in different ways producing different effects. Same for cooking. Grok salt/acid/heat.. and you can make tasty meals. It's not about "winning".

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    5.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Jan 16

      The initial grok also isn't the final grok. In a complicated domain you may have to grok other things like the backhand loop/block/etc.. or "opposite" movements like the forehand chop. Or perhaps the forehand loop has higher tiers of grok that need to be "unlocked".

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    6.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Jan 16

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      For the latter, these subsequent expert level groks have diminishing returns. Not everyone wants to spend the time to unlock what is a minor difference to most people.https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1311582438905110528 …

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      Yet if some guy has dedicated his life to perfecting the perfect egg it's not something that seems reasonable to actually do for your life. You eat the meticulously prepared egg, pretend to taste the difference, and pay a larger amount to have an egg layered with godliness.
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    7.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Jan 16

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      Going up a level, you have "grokking grok-entry" which has alternative advice forms in: "Don't pretend to understand what you don't" or "Follow your heart" or "Follow your passion" or "Be yourself". If you're not grokking you're head-nodding.https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1347234301088157696 …

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      without the self-knowledge to know when you're deluding yourself it's very easy to *think* you actually believe in this Brave New World. Yet the time horizon expectations being completely whack are a red flag that it's pseudo-understanding and head nodding.
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    8.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Jan 16

      An interesting question to ponder is "Can you force grok?" In one sense "there are no bad students" and a good teacher can transmit amazing amounts of information and intuition.https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYO_jab_esuFRV4b17AJtAw …

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    9.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Jan 16

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      In another sense, often times it feels like we are called to play certain "roles" and rejection of that role to play another game like the money or status game creates ingrained "fakeness". We forget that we never wanted to play in the first place.https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1324749586439696385?s=20 …

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      "*slap* you're an actor, stop acting!" "*slaps self* yes I know! the most terrible actor! tis my fate as the Main Cha.." "*slap* you're an actor!!!"
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    10.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Jan 16

      This is the double-edged Sword of Insight. The same "AHA" moment that you get seeing Euler's Identity explained without magic math hand waving is the same "AHA" moment the desperate beaten-down German citizen feels when offered the insight "The Jews are to blame!"

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       🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Jan 16

      Insight is the transmission of one soul to another. Across the dark lonely sea that divides individual identity, two people can, for a moment, have the same "Understanding".

      11:34 AM - 16 Jan 2021
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        1.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Jan 16

          Ok I lost the plot. TPR: grokking table tennis and Christmas trees

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