Learning by Doing

Notes

While Mastery usually involves both theoretical knowledge and hands on knowledge, we learn much more when we engage with the material. Engaging means to switch from a passive mode of learning such as hearing a lecture or reading a book to a more proactive version such as creating or teaching.

Most of us avoid learning by doing because it:

1. Damages our ego - switching from consuming to generating knowledge can have an awakening experience, one that shows us the gaps in our knowledge. Ego
2. causes us to fail - When we only consume content, we can be safe from Failure because we never try, while being proactive forces us to try and ultimately fail, most likely on the very first try
3. Hard - listening to a podcast is easy, writing one is hard. Even when we know that learning should be hard, it is still a natural tendency to avoid hardships when possible.

There's no escaping the truth that practice beats perfection. The only way to improve is by doing, so we have to get rid of any false idols of Perfectionism, embrace our imperfect knowledge, and just start practicing.

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