Yeah that is just like that, imagining that simply by reading you will get proficient in something and remember all kind of stuff is a false premise. While gri

Yeah that is just like that, imagining that simply by reading you will get proficient in something and remember all kind of stuff is a false premise. While grinding is looked upon as silly. Yes doing the same thing multiple times seems the only way to master it. If you want to learn maths - best way is to solve equations by hundreds - solve math assignments by hundreds. My latest approach to cyber security is just like that - while I do know how most of the attacks work theorethically going through the movements to pop simple box on HTB is quite a task for me. So only way to get better at breaking boxes is not reading about kinds of exploits and understanding them - it is simply bashing keyboard all the time until all the tasks are muscle memory and until I can get through iterations of ideas of how to pop a box as quick as possible. Then you also start to build intuition which approaches work for which type of math assignments or boxes because you physically did the work to have working memory of what works and what not. Which gives you specialization and possibility to skip stuff that you know won't work and being much more productive than people who are "theoretically" understanding things. While reading about stuff you get pointers like "how to bake a bread", but you get slightly different oven, you get slightly different wheat each time and it is only your internal intuition that can adjust for unknown factors.