Why am I incredibly passionate about learning things but dread actually putting them to use?
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Why am I incredibly passionate about learning things but dread actually putting them to use?
In truth, most of us don’t suffer from a knowledge deficit—we suffer from a doing deficit . We take online courses and read books but rarely apply what we learn. The hard part isn’t learning what to do; it’s doing what we already know. So how can we shift from passive thinking to active doing?
Anne-Laure Le Cunff • The Doing Deficit: How Deliberate Action Outperforms Passive Learning
Now apply this to your brain. You may get very used to sharing new skills with your close friends but then try to share them with your family and freak out. This doesn’t mean the skills were garbage. It just means you’re not used to the new situation yet.
Adam Smith • Slaying Your Fear: A guide for people who grapple with insecurity
The insincerity, the rampant performativity, the illusion of urgency, the obsession with constructing futures at the expense of the present – for better or worse, these are all things I associate with being a technologist. And when I speak to my technologist friends, most of them share the same inkling that something is amiss .
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