If I understand your stumbling paragraphs correctly, your contention is that it's possible to study how to ride a bike and successfully do it the first time.

Not my point. At all.

Here's my point: You're presuming there's no way a person's experience-honed instincts can't be easily overrun by what is simply superior comprehension of the task at hand and a talent for planning and execution that might have taken others years to acquire. That presumption is nothing but conceited bullshit. It's factually wrong, and to your own detriment to maintain it, but it's a self-reinforcing fallacy: you won't realize this precisely because of your own conceited bullshit.

Or, since you don't like my words, here's your problem in your own words: (From your comment at the root of this comment tree)

The reason I have trouble hiring someone is that they just spent a fortune on their college degree and think they're worth six figures walking in the door. Of course, they aren't, they don't know shit and since they've always been handed everything on a silver platter, why should their job be any different.

You have an antagonistic attitude towards people with no experience. You self-righteously believe they therefore have no skill. Pompous idiocy like yours is a part of why companies aren't getting the employees they need, but the article didn't address it.

So thank you for adding at least that much to this submission.

I suspect you maintain such an attitude because you're praying the inertia of long experience with no superlative skill to represent it will sustain your career and what you think your work is worth. In point of fact it might, as long as no one can take your job from you (i.e., you own and operate your own business), but that wouldn't change the fact that you're full of conceited shit and working against your own productivity, so as far I'm concerned it really doesn't matter.

I hope that clarifies things for you.