Some days you must learn a great deal. But you should also have days when you allow what is already in you to swell up and touch everything. If you never let that happen, then you just accumulate facts, and they begin to rattle around inside of you.

E.L. Konigsburg
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When you are learning something new, the only way to truly learn it is to practice it. You must practice it until it becomes a part of your everyday life. When you do this, you begin to experience the benefits of what you are learning. What you are learning should be touching everything in your life.

When you are learning something new, you should be able to feel it in other facets of your life. What you are learning should be affecting every area of your life. That is when you have truly learned what you are learning.

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