a few nights ago i tried to teach two of my friends a card game that i have been playing for about a year now. they have never played it and it was hard for me to teach them because i have a way of playing it that i developed throughout the years time.
i would relate this to craft, meaning that i have developed skills that help me play this game in a way that helps me win. it was hard for me to teach them this game because i didn't want to teach them my strategies due to the fact that it was confusing them. sometimes a move that i would make would seem stupid and senseless to them but to me it was a good idea, it ended up making me the winner.
all i could say to them was, "you just have to keep playing it to understand why i'm doing this"
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Their experience, by my use of the term, had a least some degree of science (they were testing what they knew about cards against what they did not know about this game), and in some degree philosophy (why are we doing this?) -- predominantly, though, I think you are right, that you were engaged in craft: habitual action that you teach "by the rules".
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