"The map is not the territory," kept coming to mind as I read this. To me, this is the difference between having a collection of explicit thoughts about a doma

"The map is not the territory," kept coming to mind as I read this. To me, this is the difference between having a collection of explicit thoughts about a domain (a mental model), and having a deeply embodied understanding of it, a relationship that is less explicit and more intuitive. The former is possible to create very quickly by analogy and understanding related topics, while the latter comes from intimate, repeated, engaged experience. While explicit mental models are useful for communicating, comparing, and understanding in mechanical terms, the intuitive, embodied understanding that comes from experience is the key to high performance.