Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.

Study can become a way of not living. Someone who knows everything about how things were done before can be helpless in front of the people actually in the room, because the past holds still and lets you master it while the present keeps moving and answering back. Knowledge of what was becomes a hiding place from what is.

For every hour you spend learning about how something was done, spend one doing it with the people around you. Take one idea out of the books and into an actual conversation this week. See how it holds up when somebody disagrees.