The Knowledge That Underlies Everything | Tacit Knowledge

What is tacit (or implicit) knowledge and what does it have to do with learning? To answer this question, we have to explore bike riding, expert blindness, a Chinese room, and how we remember.

0:00 An intro to tacit knowledge
0:45 Let's try an experiment
1:42 "Weak tacit knowledge"
3:36 Expert blindness
5:31 "Body knowledge"
8:03 "Social tacit knowledge" and Searle's Chinese Room
11:10 How do you learn tacit knowledge?

REFERENCES

The bones of the video come from: Collins, H. (2019). Tacit and explicit knowledge. University of Chicago press. I changed the labels he gave for the different kinds of tact knowledge he identifies because I found them pretty confusing.

Michael Polanyi is credited with first identifying and discussing tacit knowledge. His thoughts can be found in: Polanyi, M., & Sen, A. (2009). The tacit dimension. University of Chicago press.

The "explicit to implicit" model of skill acquisition is commonly exemplified by the Dreyfus model:

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

[anshagrawal]

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[AriaHarmony]

The social knowledge stuff is interesting, I experienced this with my native language, after a decade of using English as my primary language I happened to read some online posts written in my native language and found myself very confused, it seems that the internet culture changed over time and I was not there to witness this change, so now I find myself able to understand the individual words but not fully comprehend the implications of the entire post.

[Ahmadj]

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[patrickdhatt]

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[chronosbat]

Loved the exercise in this video. Tacit Knowledge seems to apply a ton to artists and that's probably why some people find some aspects like shading hard because it mainly comes from experience and intuition. I took a year long automechanics class in high school that was just heaps of books (we only got to see a car once) and I barely know how to fix a car better than the average joe does. One thing I'm curious about though is that I used to be able to identify which family member was walking around by hearing their footsteps so just some food for thought.

[jorgesanabria]

Haven’t even watched the video yet but this is a brilliant concept I first came across in the book ‘Mastery’.

[ame_]

Just like many of you here in the comments, I'm so excited to have discovered such a gem!

[yuexuanding]

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[NineHundred]

I remember when I was learning touch typing. I could easily recall all letters on the keyboard in order (left to right, up to down). Now I type at 70 WPM with this technique and if i'm asked where a particular letter is, I have to reconstruct its position from tacit knowledge (I have to imagine typing a word that contains the letter I want to locate). In this case, from explicit to tacit, followed by forgetting the explicit part. Crazy

[horaciorodd]

Woo!! I've been waiting for this one! Thank you.

[kkomax]

I'm building an app to learn English, and I'm using your superb explanations about learning, and I think, as a result it's going to be the best one out there.
Right now, you said "Second Order Instruction", maybe it was not your intention to use it in the context I'm going to, but you just fixed some issue that I wanted to fix with exercise types, and that is, that some apps, ask you to answer the exercise and give you many details(instructions), and some others don't give you enough information.

This "second order instruction" concept can be used to describe the exercise with the least amount of detail possible, while considering that the student should know what that instruction refers to, in other words, the student should have tacit knowledge of that instruction before being used in a "summarized" manner.

[crackersnucker]

Bro I accurately guessed it 100% accuracy. I just air type and it goes in my mind

[jonathanlovelace]

In teaching, I've seen the process as: 1) provide information explicitly 2) learner paraphrases, retrieves, applies, etc 3) learner knowledge becomes tacit, often losing the explicit knowledge 4) Have the learner explicate their tacit knowledge, driving deeper understanding

How's this cycle?

[IcyTorment]

The description of the dance reminds me of people trying to learn Japanese pitch accent from pitch accent courses and written descriptions of the system, accent marks, etc. instead of using their ears.

[warriordx]

I have been thinking recently that my brain uses 2 main models for processing new information it's 1: Language knowledge (specifically for communication and receving that information) 2: Pre-existing knowledge (To understand think use etc)

Can you make a video on language and how it affects learning? Or a way to improve language and leverage that for faster understanding and easier memorization

(I'm just a highschool student not an expert)

[JakeMcNaughton]

There’s also the type of knowledge that can only be experienced like the flavor of chocolate that can’t be meaningfully put into words at all. Sometimes when I’m teaching I try and set a student up for the “right” thing to happen and I tell them to pay attention to how it feels. Once their attention has been drawn to their particular experience of the sensation of things working right they seem to be able to self correct better than I could correct them. Like there is no way to teach someone verbally how to use a particular flavor or spice. Even though it might not be efficient you can conceivably verbalize the correct rate to stir risotto and add liquid to get it creamy, but you can’t conceivably verbalize how risotto tastes with the correct amount of garlic.

[cdancecoaching]

I make a living teaching dance, and dance is an excellent subject to use if/when you are gathering data on how people learn. I invite everyone to have a conversation with me about dance if you’re researching or studying pedagogy, or how human anatomy and physiology (and neuroscience) comes together. Please get in touch. Dance deserves proper, and fresh, research.🙌🏼

[pavithraselvaraj]

Thank you, this was very helpful. I guessed the example of riding bike.

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[BharatEmployment-icnp]

The learning of video is we learn by doing and experimenting. For eg. At the time of riding cycle