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.
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knowing vs. doing
Knowledge of the world isn’t the same as experiencing the world. Why does online connection so often seem to lack aliveness, as compared to encounters with the world of flesh-and-blood people, nature, and material things? This paragraph from Karl Ove Knausgaard struck me as eloquent: “It feels as if the whole world has been transformed into images
... See moreHow much more?
How many more quotes do we need to feel okay?
How much more advice before we finally change?
How many poems that almost explain us?
How many more rules about how to be human?
Eventually, you do find something that says exactly what... See more
instagram.comEver since I started matchmaking, the phrase you don’t get high off your own supply has been going around and around in my head. Being a matchmaker creates a very technical awareness of love and of people that is definitively opposed to the experience of actually being in love. It’s like doing audio engineering for a concert vs screaming your lungs... See more
You can no longer make students do the reading or the writing. So what’s left? Only this: give them work they want to do. And help them want to do it. What, again, is education? The non-coercive rearranging of desire.
Within five years, it will make little sense for scholars of history to keep producing monographs in the traditional mold—nobody will... See more
Within five years, it will make little sense for scholars of history to keep producing monographs in the traditional mold—nobody will... See more
D. Graham Burnett • Will the Humanities Survive Artificial Intelligence? | the New Yorker
Motion is the ideation, planning, and learning stage. The stage where you’re scrolling Pinterest, making vision boards, watching YouTube, listening to podcasts, reading books, etc.
Motion, as I well know, is a dangerous place to be. It feels like you’re doing something, but all the while, the needle isn’t moving an inch. Motion doesn’t produce any... See more
Motion, as I well know, is a dangerous place to be. It feels like you’re doing something, but all the while, the needle isn’t moving an inch. Motion doesn’t produce any... See more
Erin Nystrom • Motion vs. Action
1965 letter from artist Sol LeWitt to sculptor Eva Hesse on overcoming self doubt
do the thing
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... See more
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