Tacit Knowledge

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Tacit Knowledge

Part of my learning process is to do things over and over and over and over until I can essentially feel when things work, when they don't, and have a general sense of how to get the outcomes I want most of the time.

There's a whole lot of book-style learning in there, too, as I find I can calibrate my efforts much more precisely (and figure out how to correct the wrong things I'm doing more rapidly) when I'm actively benefitting from someone else's expertise throughout the process (and intentionally acting upon that expertise).

But the acquisition of tacit knowledge—the stuff you can't really communicate with language—is almost always core to learning in such a way that you ultimately achieve some level of expertise, yourself.

Here's a good piece on tacit knowledge: https://commoncog.com/tacit-knowledge-is-a-real-thing/

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