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Originally Posted by Seth 2  Think of Bruce Lee’s thing about the cups. If you want to fill your cup with Steve’s cup, you must first empty yours. Stop trying to fit EVERYTHING into your cup. You can’t! Does that help? |
Actually, the trick is to get a new cup. I've done it lots.
You don't have to unlearn everything you once knew in order to learn a new system; all you have to do is be willing to wait for the understanding to come as it will from the new source without attempting to mix it into the old system immediately.
That comes after, when you find a bowl. Of rice. And you eat it. And wash it.
Joshu says, Wash your bowl 
It's a trick you learn when you learn languages: you don't forget English to learn Chinese; you just have to stop expecting plural nouns and stuff.