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
How 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 you’ve been feeling. For a moment, It almost feels like enough. And then… you just keep scrolling. Looking for the next one that hits harder. We say it’s helping. We forget most of it. We’re addicted. Addicted to the feeling of almost understanding ourselves. We want to explain every human experience, every feeling, and put it into words—until there’s nothing left we don’t understand. But words don’t change us. They comfort us. They hold the feeling for us, so we don’t have to. And at some point, we’ve read enough. We’ve had enough advice, enough answers. We’ve spent more time learning how to live than actually living. — Written by @momentary_existentialism 🎨 Illustrations by @david.pogran
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The purpose of education is to develop agency within a child. Purposeful work and achieving mastery are tools to getting there. They aren’t the results of learning and imagination, it’s the other way around—learning is simply the consequence of doing. To understand this is to understand the ecology that fosters genius and talent.
Simon Sarris • School Is Not Enough
Steve Jobs explains the importance of both thinking and doing:
“The doers are the major thinkers. The people who really create the things that change this industry are both the thinker-doer in one person.”
Information is little pieces of idea that you have. Your speed lists will probably consist mostly of information.
After you collect a bunch of information, you'll detect patterns and relationships. As you integrate ideas together, it becomes far greater than the sum of the individual pieces- it becomes knowledge .
What is Wisdom? I define it as kno... See more
After you collect a bunch of information, you'll detect patterns and relationships. As you integrate ideas together, it becomes far greater than the sum of the individual pieces- it becomes knowledge .
What is Wisdom? I define it as kno... See more
Theory of Notebooks
"It is not enough for a man to feel the divine flame burning in him; unless he goes into the concentrated, slogging business of learning the techniques of expression, his genius will be of no use to anyone." —Oswald Chambers
Matt Cardin • Tweet
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.
Literary Hub • Slow Change Can Be Radical Change
i love sharing what i’ve learned through my own experience, but learning/reading/thinking is only the seed of change. if you resonate with my writing and want to apply what you’re learning, i want to nurture that seed into the living, breathing change it wants to become. when an idea resonates with you, it usually means you want to weave it more de... See more