Learning vs Doing
I admit it. I have a weakness. No matter what I do I can’t seem to shake. And it’s this: I love to learn.
There I said it. Now I can enroll in Learner’s Anonymous.
Why is this a problem? Because learning isn’t the same as doing. And it’s in the doing that greatness happens. Go ahead and pick anything you want. A thought, a belief, an opinion. But I can tell you it didn’t matter until someone did something about it. You might have a great idea for a new TV product, but it won’t matter until you do it. Do you have the next Great American Novel? That’s awesome, but it doesn’t count until you write it.
All of that takes action, and that’s where I can get bogged down. Even as a kid I loved thinking. I even loved school. In fact I would give just about anything to be paid to go to school forever. Which, I suppose, is why I once applied for a job as a Text Book study guide writer. (I can feel most of you falling asleep even as I type the job title!)
Learning is important. But so is doing. Because in the end, without doing, it’s as if you didn’t learn anything.
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