Josh Waitskin 在他的《the art of learning》有说到:the learning principle is to plunge into detailed mystery of micro in order to understand what makes the macro tick.
my father used to sit me on his lap and read to me from the
Encyclopaedia Britannica, and we would read, say, about dinosaurs and maybe it
would be talking about the brontosaurus or something, or the tyrannosaurus rex,
and it would say something like, This thing is twenty-five feet high and the
head is six feet across, you see, and so he’d stop all this and say, Let’s
see what that means. That would mean that if he stood in our front yard he
would be high enough to put his head through the window but not quite because
the head is a little bit too wide and it would break the window as it came by.Everything we’d read would be translated as best we could into some reality and
so I learned to do that–everything that I read I try to figure out what it
really means, what it’s really saying by translating and so