I love book learning. Perhaps I find it easier at times to read, in the comfort and safety of solitude, than to expose myself to the realities of being in front of other humans.
The questions that philosophy deals with, we face in our lives every day. And though we may know how we ought to be, living it out is almost an entirely different experience.
But we can learn. We can read and we can reflect and then we can try again the next day.