knowing vs. doing
exploring the difference between having knowledge and being able to act on it. the difference between reading a lot and being able to integrate and embody those learnings.
by sari and · updated 17d ago
knowing vs. doing
- I regret to inform you that personal growth rarely comes from acquiring new knowledge and always from periods of intense humility (i.e. your ego finally relenting)
sari added 17d ago
sari added 3mo ago
- It's a fallacy that people change due to "ideas"—as if you just need to get the right book into someone's hands, the right "mental model", and viola! The change starts to happen. Change is the result of a process, and an idea is only one small part of that process. In an electronic age, in which everything is connected and can practically be pres... See more
phoebe added 5mo ago
"The best way to learn is to do the work."
alex added 5mo ago
Most truths are like that, easy to hear or recite, hard to live in the sense that slowness is hard for most of us, requiring commitment, perseverance, and return after you stray. Because the job is not to know; it’s to become. A sociopath knows what kindness is and how to weaponize it; a saint becomes it.
from Slow Change Can Be Radical Change by Rebecca Solnit
sari added 7mo ago
- The problem with Jon Haidt's work, IMO, is that it's "Everyone knows that everyone knows that everyone already knows" that social media is bad and that maybe kids shouldn't be using smartphones so much. You can do all of the academic research you want, you can write banger… Show more
alex added 7mo ago
most problems are bot knowledge problems they are implementation problems
Habitat Chronicles: You can't tell people anything
sari added 7mo ago
Duke Stump | The Beauty Of Not Knowing
lili added 8mo ago
Duke walks us through how ‘not knowing’ served him in his life.
Some highlights:
Do it because it ‘feels right’
Less focus around what’s the logical path, and more on the emotional - what feels right
Sit still and listen vs give into the urge to do something
Go from doing to being
Replace what’s your purpose with what makes you curious? - Notice the difference in how these make you feel
Keep returning to this one burning question - what does the world need most that i am/we are most uniquely qualified to deliver - when you can answer this, you can hit the go button
The concept of Santosha - means complete contentment in yoga philosophy. Relation to Equanimity: Allows acceptance of all circumstances, including pleasure and pain.
Some quotes (we love quotes)
“It’s become a courageous act to love who you are”
“My jam is not about driving traffic, doing the best acquisitions, crm. I wake up in the morning to find the soul of the place, establish it and celebrate it”
“I don’t really have a point of view about data and the known, and how everything you do is directly gonna drive revenue.”
“To know is to be in a prison
To not know is to be free” - Christian Murdy
Of course, the stories you tell yourself are useless if you don’t take action. “No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess,” the psychologist William James wrote, no matter how good one’s stories may be, “if one [does not] act, one’s life may remain entirely unaffected for the better.” One’s life, as James puts it, “is an aggregate of
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