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Are you of the opinion that you can't get experience by reading books or watching youtube?

Do you think everything taught in an oral form (as opposed to hands on) is completely useless?

Are all military strategy books used by military academies a waste of time, since you can only learn by leading a real army?

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All of those things have to be integrated with experience to be useful. Often the learner already has a lot of that experience, so the data can be integrated easily.

You can't understand those books or information without having a lifetime of experience to contextualize them. You can't convert them from rote knowledge into skills without trying them out.

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