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
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
,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'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.comOf 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
Visakan Veerasamyx.com"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
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
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