The Osmosis Fallacy:
If you’re immersed, will you learn by default?
It's easy to think you can absorb through osmosis. That you'll hum along and improve simply because you are present.
But immersion & proximity are not sufficient.
Learning is a result of deliberate thinking.
If you’re immersed, will you learn by default?
It's easy to think you can absorb through osmosis. That you'll hum along and improve simply because you are present.
But immersion & proximity are not sufficient.
Learning is a result of deliberate thinking.






It's one thing to watch an artist paint and assume you know how the process works.
It's another thing to be the one holding a Winsor & Newton hog bristle brush, deciding which color to dip into first.
It's another thing to be the one holding a Winsor & Newton hog bristle brush, deciding which color to dip into first.
If learning by osmosis sounds too good to be true...
It's because it is.
On the bright side:
If you learn a lot just by being exposed, imagine how much further you could go if you actively tried.
It's because it is.
On the bright side:
If you learn a lot just by being exposed, imagine how much further you could go if you actively tried.