You Don’t Know How You Do Something — Until You Try to Teach It

That realization hit me hard one day while sitting in the passenger seat, trying to teach my cousin how to drive a manual car. What I normally did without thinking — clutch in, check mirrors, glance at the speedo — became weirdly difficult to explain. I had to slow down and notice my process. My body knew what to do, but my mind had forgotten how to describe it.

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