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Successful people writing memoirs and self-help books are basically trying to reverse-engineer their own intuition. I think this works sometimes, but ultimately, a lot of intuition is non-fungible and can't be reverse-engineered. You have to build your own.

Really the most effective way to give your intuition to someone else is in person. I think basically every other method falls deeply short, and in-person still isn't perfect. But you're upping the success rate substantially.

This is part of why the motivational, cooking, lifting, etc youtube scenes are dangerous.

"you have video of someone else doing it! the only thing stopping you is yourself." is the refrain of the sisyphean song

what's missing is the intuition, which hasn't been, and couldn't have been, shared except through two people coming together in real life

also, texting a real person is still a hundred times more efficient than ingesting any kind of recording, for most complex tasks

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