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
There are thinkers and there are doers. Oftentimes the thinkers do things, and doers have to think about what they’re doing. But the distinction is helpful, as dichotomies so often are, to illustrate something fundamental about the way we approach the world.
Henry Oliver • On Thinkers and Doers - By Rohit - Strange Loop Canon
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
... See morewhen all information is perfectly catalogued and perfectly analysed by perfect tools that present them perfectly to us at the perfect time in the perfect way…
…we will finally see how it was actually courage we needed all along, more than information
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Daily choice to live in God’s oneness, prioritizing embodied spiritual experience over detached knowledge as true redemption.
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But the Alter Rebbe says there, it's a choice every day to either embrace that God is one and start experiencing the world as his or not. So make that choice right now. What do you want? Which world do you want to live in? Because you could choose both. There's evidence for both. You can choose both. You're going to have to choose it.
And I remember
... See moreknowing vs. experiencing: if you have five minutes of an embodied experience of the frequency of God's oneness in your nervous system, that will trump 53 years of knowledge.
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
