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Knowing is not enough. Knowing too much can encourage us to procrastinate. There's a certain point when continuing to know at the expense of doing allows the mess to grow further
Abby Covert • How to Make Sense of Any Mess
“The first Velvet Underground album only sold 10,000 copies, but everyone who bought it formed a band."
-Brian Eno.
In truth, most of us don’t suffer from a knowledge deficit—we suffer from a doing deficit . We take online courses and read books but rarely apply what we learn. The hard part isn’t learning what to do; it’s doing what we already know. So how can we shift from passive thinking to active doing?
Anne-Laure Le Cunff • The Doing Deficit: How Deliberate Action Outperforms Passive Learning
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