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Gail, you know one thing I didn’t get a chance to get into in that column was the theory of 10,000 hours: The idea is that it takes 10,000 hours to get really good at anything, whether it is playing tennis or playing the violin or writing journalism.-David Brooks, earlier this morning.
I’m actually a big believer in that idea, because it underlines the way I think we learn, by subconsciously absorbing situations in our heads and melding them, again, below the level of awareness, into templates of reality.
Templates of reality, eh? Lets go to the master, shall we?
That wherein Dasein already understands itself in this way is always something with which it is primordially familiar. This familiarity with the world does not necessarily require that the relations which are constitutive for the world as world should be theoretically transparent. However, the possibility of giving these relations an explicit interpretation, is grounded in this familiarity with the world; and this familiarity, in turn, is constituive for Dasein, and makes up Dasein's understanding of Being.
-M. Heidegger, Being and Time, page 119
Okay, it's definitely a reach. Posting regularly is harder than I thought it would be.
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