Stop Thinking and Start Doing

We all have goals that we want to achieve in our lives. These goals may include becoming an engineer, becoming an entrepreneur, learning a new language, eating healthier and losing weight, becoming a better person, saving more money, and so on.

It can be caused by a lack of knowledge. This is why we buy courses on how to start a business or how to lose weight fast or how to learn a new language in three months.

We are easy to assume that the gap between where you are now and where you want to be in the future assuming that if we knew about a better strategy, than we would get better results. We believe that a new result requires new knowledge.

What I’m starting to realize, however, is that new knowledge does not necessarily drive new results. In fact, learning something new can actually be a waste of time if your goal is to make progress and not simply gain additional knowledge.

It all comes down to the difference between learning and practicing. Thomas Sterner in his book “The Practicing Mind” rightly said, “When we practice something, we are involved in the deliberate repetition of a process with the intention of reaching a specific goal. The words deliberate and intention is the key here because they define the difference between actively practicing something and passively learning it.”