From Learning to Doing

I love to learn. It’s a part of my soul.

Whether it’s reading a book, watching Nova on PBS, or Googling one of the hundreds of random questions that pop into my mind at any given moment (like the differences between crocodiles and alligators), I am obsessed with learning.

One thing that I have learned while on this latest adventure in my life is that there is a time for learning and there is a time for doing and making that switch can be incredibly fucking hard.

  • Maybe you also love learning constantly.
  • Maybe you’re fired up about your newest idea and want to gobble up every bit of info you can find.
  • Maybe you’re starting a new venture in life and you trying trying to figure out all the how-to’s.

All of these are worthwhile. Necessary even.

There’s a moment though when you start getting the feeling that you’re actually not DOING the thing you are wanting to do because you’re too busy learning HOW TO DO IT.

Do you remember your first kiss? I’m going to venture a guess that it was hella awkward. Your heart is pounding. You’re trying to figure out where to put your head. You’re thinking “OMG I’m kissing [insert the name of the person you had been crushing on].

Let me guess something else. No amount of watching romance movies prepares us for this momentous and intensely clumsy moment as quickly as doing it.

That’s because life is about experiences.

There’s this funny thing about life… you have to live it!

That means at some point you have to stop studying the thing and start doing the thing. I know. I know. Scary, right?

It doesn’t have to be. I promise. That’s why I’m writing this for you, ya beautiful person you.

See this is something that I have been STRUGGLING with lately. I have all of these ideas, all of these plans, all of these excuses, and all of these other things I “need” to be doing.

If I’m honest right now, this isn’t the first project that I’ve run into “information paralysis”. However, this is the time I’m say “hell to the no” to it.

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