Mimesis was the Greek word for imitation, and the oldest theory of how we learn: by copying a thing long before we understand it. Understanding, if it comes, comes after.
. It doesn’t capture the moment a senior went quiet for a second before answering, because that pause was itself the thing worth learning from.
A junior working next to an agent gets the outcome without the performance that produced it. Clean, fast, and stripped of the one part that was ever going to teach them anything.
Understanding comes after the imitation, not before it. That’s the order Aristotle had right, and the order most onboarding plans get backwards. You can’t fast-track a junior past the copying phase by giving them better answers faster. You can only give them, or fail to give them, enough moments where the move is visible enough to copy.
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