Practice is human development

Practice is synonymous with human development. As a distinct concept, it gives us a space to sanctify and formalize processes of transformation.

To transform would imply a process of change. But how can I change from A to B, if I’m not B? (Setting aside considerations of physis vs poiesis). There’s this unbridgeable gap, going from zero to one. So we get Zeno’s paradox of the motionless arrow, proof that we could never change.

Such proof exists in the abstract; it’s in the concrete, away from the words, that a bridge is revealed.

Conceptualization is just a scaffold, collective knowledge, supporting those endeavors along the way, but what produces development, lasting transformation, is practice.