In the "For what it's worth Dept.":
This reminds me of something I was told years ago. A friend had a learning method called "parallel learning." I don't know where he got it originally, and have never heard of it since.
The idea is that when you see someone doing something you'd like to learn, you follow their actions in your mind. Your mind must work along with the actions you are seeing, and you must follow exactly as if you are also doing these actions at that moment.
As an example, I'll use knitting. As you watch the knitter, follow the exact hand movements. Be sure to watch for every nuance as this is part of gaining expertise.
I believe the idea behind it is to implant it in your memory without actually ever having done it.
I can tell you that it is a very interesting experience, and you can learn from it, but it will become exhausting very fast.
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