My traps when trying to implement learning = behavior change:

[thehero]

Quotes to go off of: 

"Learning = Behavior change"

"if you've learned something, you'll see it in your behavior"

Summary: It's about genuinely producing insight on a deep level. You must get a feeling of *understanding*. It's a feeling. Understanding is something you feel. You'll know when you're there. 

Benefits of this idea:

I decided to contemplate this topic because I was explaining to a friend how to build skill in a sport. I was genuinely explaining it to him (actually producing insight) and I got some epiphanies myself.  Once I gathered these epiphanies, I was able to easy apply them to my own skill building. I THOUGHT I KNEW how to build skills. But it was SURFACE LEVEL. It wasn't until I produced the genuine insight did I actually know how to build the skill. In some occasions, I see my behavior changed because of the insight. My skill building has improved. But before the insight, behavior had not changed.

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When you explain things to someone, you are actually get into a process where you start understanding the topic better yourself

But you have to genuinely explain it and not half-ass it otherwise you're not actually understanding the topic.

It becomes deception, because:

Self-deceptions:

Explaining something without actually producing genuine understanding. I find that I'm doing this because I can be tired and procrastinate the contemplation or not want to face feelings of confusion

Traps: 

Explaining something to the minimum degree without going all the way until you produce an insight. Seems like a way to be lazy or save energy.

 mechanically explaining it just for the sake of explaining it. "eh, explained good enough" NOT GOING ALL THE WAY TO INSIGHT

or sometimes explaining it just to look smart and just say some cool theories

or sometimes explaining something to not look dumb and end up therefore lying

Explaining it without actually putting in the effort to actually explain it
 

Observations:

Real Contemplation requires energy and is a bit cognitively demanding

I got into FLOW writing this. It was beautiful