There's also a limit to how much you can learn from reading, or from analysis - some lessons are only learned in doing the work. Thoreau makes this point in Wa

There's also a limit to how much you can learn from reading, or from analysis - some lessons are only learned in doing the work. Thoreau makes this point in Walden - "To my astonishment I was informed on leaving college that I had studied navigation! - why, if I had taken one turn down the harbor I should have known more about it."