- Thread Starter
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There's even a world of difference even between "doing" and "understanding".
There are parts of my art I didn't understand for years, though I learned to do them fairly early. I could do the technique, and had no idea it wasn't quite the right way, until one day I finally understood the principle, and suddenly it was much more effective.
To my mind, "mastery" is simply short-hand for understanding the principles. It is a starting point for a deeper level of understanding.
So what you are saying is that although you thought you were doing the techniques, you were not actually doing them, because you didn't properly understand them.
This is actually what I am saying. To understand, you must be able to do. To do (properly) you must understand. Learning a technique means you can perform it, but it doesn't mean you can perform it correctly. This is what I was trying to get at; the difference between learning and understanding.