PRACTICED AND PERFECT ๐๐ When looking at what we know, philo..
Added 2024-06-01 00:26:35 +0000 UTCPRACTICED AND PERFECT ๐๐
When looking at what we know, philosophy seems to be stuck in the mind.๐ง All fucking facts and beliefs.๐ง But in life, most of the knowledge we use is how to do things, not what things are. Like riding a bike.๐ฒ You canโt study riding a bike.๐ค You canโt learn from reading or watching videos.๐ Hearing from world experts does little good either.๐ฃ๏ธ You donโt use your mind to learn skills, you use your body.๐คธโโ๏ธ You have to get on the bike and let your body figure out, in the real world, how to balance, peddle and steer. Mistakes happen continually, but your body slowly learns till it becomes effortless.๐ As they say, you never forget to ride a bike, because learning know-how becomes embodied - though we forget facts all the time.๐คฏ
Philosophers like twentieth-century Englishman Gilbert Ryle saw knowing-how as just as important as knowing-what, maybe even more so because it breaks down the silly idea that we are just someone sitting in our head (a โghost in the machineโ).๐ป Instead, we are our whole-body of sensations, which is why this idea is sexy as shit.๐ฅ Fucking is a know-how, not a know-what.๐ฅต Facts and advice may help a little, but the only way to learn how to fuck, and fuck well, is to practice, which means making mistakes.๐ But practice makes perfect.๐ And the wonderful thing is, when you start to feel like you are losing yourself in the moment, youโre actually moving your mind from behaving like a passenger in your head to a richer, truer sense of who you really are.๐
