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
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... See more
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
Knowing something and actually living your life in a way that follows that knowledge are two very different things.
Haraldur Thorleifsson • Five years, that’s not too long
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.”
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.
Trae Stephens • Choose Good Quests
"The best way to learn is to do the work."
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