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Reference:: R: The Black Swan by Nassim Taleb
Here I argue that doing is the best method of learning because it's in accordance with how we evolved to learn (process is the means to doing).
However, there's another benefit of implementing the knowledge from books and other passive sources of knowledge. Namely, you minimize what Taleb calls platonicity—our propensity to idealize, simplify, reduce the world which buries its volatility and randomness leading to bad judgement, bias, and epistemic arrogance.
By doing, you transform from being the top-down, rationalizing, arrogant theoritican into the bottom-up, empirical, skeptical practitioner.
By doing, you're bringing the metaphysical into the physical, exposing the potential Black Swans that can be hiding in the platonitized theories of the author. You're clashing your vision of how the world works with how it really works.
You can have many theories about how to ride a bike but only after you step on it and start riding will you realize which of these preconceptions were real and which weren't.
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P: Why can't we see Black Swans?: here is more about platonicity.
This also relates to platonicity and the gap between reality and abstraction. Words can only get you so far. There will always be a difference between words and reality because simply there aren't so many words as there are complexities and dimensionalities in reality. This is why you must put the metaphysical into the physical. There will always be a gap between the description/theory/words/abstraction and reality. You must always aim to get to reality as possible through testing, experimentation, doing, showing, etc.