Michael Polanyi's formulation that 'we know more than we can tell' captures the domain of tacit knowledge — the embodied, procedural, dispositional knowing that cannot be fully articulated but that constitutes the greater part of expert competence. The surgeon's hands, the martial artist's timing, the experienced teacher's reading of a room: none of this knowledge lives primarily in language. Embodied learning requires practice, not instruction — the body learns through repetition, failure, and correction in conditions of genuine use.
Each step builds on the last.