This week while reading I was struck by an idea.
I cannot know something works or witness results until I have tried it first.
Here is an example. I was in a class recently where I taught that to grow I need to spend time in my frontier of competence. This is to say, I need to push my boundaries to the edge of what I’m capable of and spend time in discomfort as I learn new things.
This sounds logical but I won’t see results of growth until I actually put myself in that situation and get uncomfortable in my frontier of competence.
Thinking beyond the class I took, I have to act, I have to experiment, I have to do something with the information I consume and only then can I see the results.
What does this mean in practice? It means I can consume media all day long thinking I’m “learning” but until I do something with the information I cannot speak to it’s effectiveness and power.
What are you learning right now? How are you putting information you are consuming into practice?
