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
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 more“The teacher learns more than the student.
The author learns more than the reader.
The speaker learns more than the attendee.
The way to learn is by doing.”
The author learns more than the reader.
The speaker learns more than the attendee.
The way to learn is by doing.”
jamesclear.com • 3-2-1: On Learning by Doing, a Rule to Live By, and the Seasons of Life | James Clear
The problem with Jon Haidt's work, IMO, is that it's "Everyone knows that everyone knows that everyone already knows" that social media is bad and that maybe kids shouldn't be using smartphones so much.
You can do all of the academic research you want, you can write banger essays in The Atlantic—it doesn't matter. We're... See more
Luke Burgisx.commost problems are bot knowledge problems they are implementation problems
when 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
Visakan Veerasamyx.comKnowledge of the world isn’t the same as experiencing the world. Why does online connection so often seem to lack aliveness, as compared to encounters with the world of flesh-and-blood people, nature, and material things? This paragraph from Karl Ove Knausgaard struck me as eloquent: “It feels as if the whole world has been transformed into images
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,As it turns out, “knowing better” isn’t the secret to taking action, creating momentum, or doing the things we want to do. So many things take more than just knowing. And, as it turns out, trying to do everything alone, trying to keep our struggles secret, doesn’t do what we think it will do, either.
Lisa Olivera • Tending to the shame of stuckness
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
"The best way to learn is to do the work."