Experience Is More Valuable Than Theory
You cannot separate knowledge from contact with the ground. Actually, you cannot separate anything from contact with the ground. And the contact with the real world is done via skin in the game—having an exposure to the real world, and paying a price for its consequences, good or bad. The abrasions of your skin guide your learning and discovery, a mechanism of organic signaling, what the Greeks called pathemata mathemata ("guide your learning through pain," something mothers of young children know rather well).
It is better to learn by doing the thing and taking action first, and then coming up with the explanation or theory after, rather than thinking too much first. Knowledge comes from experience and trial and error.
References
Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Skin in the Game by Nassim Nicholas Taleb