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Feb 4– Characteristics by Thomas Carlyle (1831)
Summary: "The healthy know not of their health, but only the sick." The less conscious you are of something, the better you are.
Commentary: I'm just going to paste in this line, and the overlong comment I already wrote about it.
Is it the skilfulest anatomist that cuts the best figure at Sadler's Wells? or does the boxer hit better for knowing that he has a flexor longus and a flexor brevis?
This is one of those things that's interesting to look at today, with all the information that's available.
In chess (for one example) we now have names and win rates and all kinds of things for all the openings, and many people comment that we know too much, and too much time is spent on learning that. But does Magnus Carlson actually memorize all that? Is he just really good at calculating out combinations quickly and far ahead? Does he have a gut instinct, born of talent and honed by years of practice? I expect it's all 3, and that study/knowledge does have value, but there are certainly people who are extremely knowledgeable about a given sport, game, skill, etc., but who aren't great at it.
They're probably still better than average for the studying though.
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