This is a linkpost for http://johnsalvatier.org/blog/2017/reality-has-a-surprising-amount-of-detail
This is why I like Naruto as a rationalist fanfic substrate: perceptual skills are explicitly upstream of action skills in the naruto universe. I think this mirrors the real universe and explains much of the valley of bad self-help. Action skills are pointless if you don't have the cues on when where and why to deploy them.
Another frame on the same concept: don't keep teaching people spells when their mana pool size sucks.
I currently have almost zero knowledge of Naruto and I'm interested in hearing more things about the perception/action skills thing as it applies to Naruto Classic (and/or rationalist!naruto)