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    "Of course there's no substitute for hands-on experience," said Palamedes, adjusting his glasses. "It's a multi-stage process. Read about the thing you want to do. Then try it. Then evaluate how successful your efforts were, and if necessary, go back to the books to learn more before you try again. Lots of clever people have practiced and sweated and struggled for years to become experts in their field, and then they wrote books about it. We can learn from their advice so we don't have to reinvent the wheel. Or in this case," he added, "the rope."

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