#knowing-doing gap

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Bridging the Knowing-Doing Gap: Understanding and Action

Discover the Knowing-Doing Gap and explore strategies to bridge the gap between knowledge and action for a more purposeful and fulfilling life.

This post tackles the "knowing-doing gap"—why we struggle to act on what we know is right. It unpacks the psychology behind inaction and provides practical strategies—from setting clear goals to cultivating a growth mindset—that help you build consistency and, ultimately, turn valuable knowledge into meaningful, lasting change.

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Moving yourself past resistance is a matter of shifting your perception of comfort. It’s about considering the alternative. It’s altering your mindset to focus on the discomfort you will face if you don’t do the thing in front of you, as opposed to the discomfort you will face if you do. If left unchecked, the knowing-doing gap will leave you a shell of the person you intended to be. It will wreck your most intimate, passionate relationships, keep you from the kind of daily productivity required to achieve any goal worth working toward. It will keep you in a manic state of indecision (do I, or don’t I? Which feeling do I let guide me?). You have to take control for yourself, and you can do so by considering the big picture. The alternative. The way your life will be if you don’t do this thing. How will you quantifiably measure this year? What will you have done? How many hours will you have wasted? If you had to live today—or any average day —on repeat for the rest of your life, where would you end up? What would you accomplish? How happy would you be? What relationships will you have fostered? Will you be looking back knowing you likely damn well missed out on what could have been the love of your life because you weren’t “ready?” What about the hours you could have been playing music or writing or painting or whatever-ing? Where will those have gone?

Brianna Wiest in 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think

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When learners turn knowing into doing! There are multiple impacts of people following through on their promises and commitments. Knowing stuff but not doing it.

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Ideas are easy. It is the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats

Sue Grafton, Novelist