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
"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
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.comHow 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.comi 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
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.”
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.
lithub.com • Rebecca Solnit: Slow Change Can Be Radical Change
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
do the thing