Grokking

His method of exploration was called 'grokking' and involved feeling things, events, ideas, people across space and time. ❋ Tusar N Mohapatra (2005)

"grokking" (and it's a good thing I have Raph Koster's book about fun handy to rip his summary out of): "It means that you understand something so thoroughly that you have become one with it and even love it." ❋ Unknown (2009)

Its great to see people grokking that the NYTimes has to become a platform to survive. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Plot-grokking sessions in which some of us would share our storybuilding problems with the others, and get suggestions for improvement. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Your comments are insightful and you clearly spent much more time grokking their B.S. than I had the stomach to. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The significance I find in this grokking, are the implications if infinity actually is real. ❋ R.W. Sanders (2011)

As for the loneliness, I'm afraid I'm incapable of grokking that because I've got Asperger syndrome, which means that I NEED some alone time on a daily basis. ❋ Mroctober (2010)

I rather gave up on Miéville after not really grokking his Iron Council, but I think I have changed my mind again. ❋ Nwhyte (2010)

Steve Downey @ 7: "I've also learned through many computer epiphanies, like finally grokking what an Object is, that the insight that puts you over the edge is not actually the cause of the epiphany." ❋ Unknown (2010)

Speaking as someone who tried to help their drama major ex-girlfriend not major drama ex-girlfriend, that came later through a simple while loop to increment a variable, I can attest to you 100% that different people's brains work differently, and that creative people and programmer-type people sometimes have a huge chasm of grokking between them. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I've also learned through many computer epiphanies, like finally grokking what an Object is, that the insight that puts you over the edge is not actually the cause of the epiphany. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Yes, true, but we're a way away from voters truly grokking what choice they have. ❋ The Huffington Post News Team (2010)

By only specifying that an outgoing link is either a “contact” or “another link of mine”, we greatly reduce the cognitive tax of grokking the problem that XFN set out to solve and minimize the implementation tax of rolling out the necessary logic and template changes. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I could do it again in a heartbeat, so I am no great shakes when it comes to grokking the Youth of America. ❋ Michael Conniff (2010)

Less grokking, too, though I now see just how pivotal that term, on a whole, is to the novel's structure. ❋ Pabba (2008)

It, and this, reminds me of Robert Anton Wilson's advice to smoke a joint and read Christianity Today, with the intent of totally grokking it, and then the next day, do the same thing with something like The Humanist, the point being it is always important to work at getting out of your individual "reality tunnel." ❋ Lou Anders (2008)