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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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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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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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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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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🐈 @a_yawning_catYet 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.Show this thread1 reply 0 retweets 1 likeShow this thread -
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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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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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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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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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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".
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Ok I lost the plot. TPR: grokking table tennis and Christmas trees
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