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> If you’ve mastered all those subjects, it should be easy.

Sometimes you can have correct knowledge of how to succeed at something without being able to personally implement that knowledge.

It's pretty common, actually.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdhEIy-1CG8




If you're not able to personally implement it then you're not qualified for the position, so the parent comment's point still stands


Damasio (on phone, might be spelled wrong) has a hypothesis based on this in neuroscience. I might not say that fully accurately, but knowledge recitation and application: different parts of the brain




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