I tried for many years of my life to compress all of my learnings into a single, concise, structured format. Though I clearly knew something, I struggled to fit it into the format I believed was required in order to share.
I abandoned that format when I realized that I would never attain the structural perfection I had in mind. I had not learned it that way, so why would I force myself to share it that way? I had learned through messy repetition; by expressing a concept in 100 different ways, until one of them stuck, and it made sense. Repetitive self-narration.
My writing style will reflect that. While I always look for the best way to say something, I have most likely written it many other ways before. Without all those imperfect explanations, I am not sure I could fully understand the perfection of the final one when I expressed it.
So, in my writing I will often say the same thing many different times in many different ways.
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