Don't feel bad Chris. I think most of us found PM to be a very "thick" read. In fact, the thought I am having right now is that perhaps those of us who are trying to apply PM principles have simplified it's ideas a bit too much. If it was so difficult to read, why should it be easy to apply?
I took a lot of courses in Physics in college. If you asked me to explain the The General Theory of Relativity, I would say "Sure" and give it my best shot but I would have a hard time doing it without falling back on the standard examples and analogies used in most textbooks. I would have to talk about trains traveling at different speeds and people turning on flashlights. I don't understand the concept well enough to have internalized it and explain it from my own point of view. I think that is how most of the PM followers on the board feel about their level of understanding of PM concepts. We can't explain PM concepts nearly as well as Schnarch for the same reason we can't explain Relativity concepts nearly as well as Einstein.
That is why we keep telling others to just read the book and join in the discussion.
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