Omar Zenhom argues that watching videos or consuming information doesn't create mastery. Real learning requires doing, experimenting, and repeating. He uses driving as an example: beginners grip the wheel tight and focus hard, but only repeated practice gets you to autopilot.
Watching is not learning. Mastery comes from doing, experimenting, improving, and repeating that loop so that you can continue to iterate and get better. And the best example I can give you is learning how to drive. You don't actually know how to drive until you get in the driver's seat. And in the beginning, you're like super focused, or your hands are gripping the wheel, you're white-knuckling the whole way, you're going slower than you actually need to, right? But what happens? You drive and you drive some more, and one day you're driving home from work and you don't know where the last 5 minutes went. You're on autopilot. You've mastered driving. That didn't happen by accident. That happened because you did it over and over again. You actually applied what you learned. You didn't watch a bunch of videos and got better as a driver. No, you had to get behind the wheel and do it over and over.
