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		bane on Feb 19, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What's It Like to Live Without Electricity? Ask an... It's the difference, as Heinlein wrote about, being 'knowing' and 'groking'. There's an actionable quality to groking that doesn't exist with knowing.

tacon on Feb 19, 2015 [–]

Or the old Japanese koan that goes something like:

"To know and not to have done is not yet to know."

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