It's called "tacit knowledge" and I think we generally overindex on explicit, formal knowledge and ignore tacit knowledge. You can see that with language learning, we treat languages like something you "learn", but in my experience it's closer to a motor skill like playing tennis.
When I stopped reading X, I had this thought one morning:
> The political crisis, the bloody war, the looming apocalypse only exist to distract you from the fact that you didn't fold the laundry.
The longer I live news-free, the more I find it true.