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's nothing more disappointing than talking to someone who understands things intellectually but hasn't achieved the embodiment of that understanding to cause a transformation. They're effectively pleasing the intellect while dulling their desire to go past that first layer.
Hyde 💨twitter.comThe 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
Ever 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
Information Vs. Knowledge
exploring the difference between information, knowledge, and wisdom
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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 moreMost 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.
lithub.com • Rebecca Solnit: Slow Change Can Be Radical Change
We learn who we are in practice, not in theory.” We learn whether an idea is incredible or terrible when we put it into practice, not when we talk about it in theory
To the public intellectual, one must ask: if your ideas are so good, why aren't you executing on them? It is much easier (and less impactful) to write about the importance of “green tech” than to build Tesla. Moreover, many self-titled public intellectuals are not even particularly intellectual. They are just... public.