what does "The investment we brought up to have" mean

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I am translating a book called Missing Out (https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Missing_Out/6sgL6iqrHZUC?hl=en&gbpv=0)

the book is about psychoanalysis and philosophy which is written not in direct and fluent language. in one of the sentences you can read:

Getting it, or not getting it - both the experience, which is acute, and the phrase, which seems not to be - reminds us of the investment we are brought up to have in understanding as a measure of intimacy and competence;

what does "the investment we brought up to have" mean? can someone rewrite it in a simpler form? is this a correct understanding: we are brought up in a way to have an investment in understanding ...

Yes, that's about it. We think we should all be "getting it." See if "intimace" is supposed to be intimacy. — Yosef Baskin, Jan 28 '21 at 19:03
"What does 'the investment we are brought up to have' mean?" If you want this post to proper, please take some time to transcribe the text more carefully as well as form the question grammatically. ("what means"...and intimace)? — Cascabel_StandWithUkraine_, Jan 28 '21 at 20:43
I think there was an earlier quotation by this author. These tortured sentences perhaps reflect the quality of his thinking. — Xanne, Jan 28 '21 at 21:33
@Cascabel Yes, I knew that. On a scale of torturing the language, he gets 9 out of 10. — Xanne, Jan 28 '21 at 23:19
it was just two typos and I have fixed it. Why you are complaining about the way the author is writing; some authors write more complicated than the others. — Mey, Jan 29 '21 at 00:20
It means that whoever wrote that was incapable of writing clear English. — Hot Licks, Jan 29 '21 at 00:30

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 29 '21 at 01:16

reminds us of the investment we are brought up to have in understanding as a measure of intimacy and competence;

appears to mean that, during our upbringing, we are subconsciously taught to use "understanding" both as a way to judge intimacy and as a way to gauge competence.

what does "The investment we brought up to have" mean

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