Learn By Doing

Increase Knowledge Through Action.

The over consumption of information is a modern plague that infects many people.

An unprecedented amount of news, entertainment and distraction from multiple sources and personalities has been flooding our radios, TVs, phones, computers and molding narratives for most daily conversations.

While it seems that we’ve become more connected and knowledgeable than ever before, the ability to actually focus in on things for a long period of time has dwindled for most.

Our minds are constantly being led to give our attention away to the newest trend or breaking story. We indulge in this novel idea for a few days until the next “urgent matter” begins to take hold. This pattern seems to repeat until we sit there and realize we have accumulated a bunch of surface level information we can give our two cents about, but few real skills or any actual wisdom to help build our lives and progress forward.

Throughout history, knowledge was more of an intimate subject. You couldn’t just google any skill or deeply research a topic and have thousands, if not millions, of people with varying degrees of results online ready and eager to help you. If you lived somewhere without access to the right teachers, books or current systems already in place, you had to venture out into the world and turn over every stone until you began to find the right answers.

Why most people stagnate today is because when something gets handed over so easily, it is usually taken for granted. In the case of the ever expanding digital world we now live in, many might deep dive into a subject for a couple of days only to never really focus. They assume they’ll revisit the content because they can just go back to that page at any moment. No real traction takes place due to the fact that there’s always some next fad or trend to latch onto. A never ending cycle of distraction and entertainment that just seems to get more pervasive as time goes on.

To start learning the right way, think in terms of instant implementation. It’s good to be curious and seek out knowledge, but try not to hoard what you know. Pick a skill, read up on the basics and start acting. After getting those first few reps in, whatever you read or watched will begin to take shape. You’ll actually understand what it’s like to go through specific motions instead of just memorizing facts and talking points.

You can read every sales book ever written and have the best script out there but if you don’t pick up the phone and start talking to people, nobody will even know your offer exists. You can watch every training and motivation video on Youtube but if you don’t start working out, you’ll never know how strong you can be. You can brainstorm, outline, edit and read a novel per day but if you don’t publish and post your writing, nobody will read it.

Let go of any signs of “perfectionism”. If you really want to do something, get started and refine the process as you move up the ladder. Thinking and acting should go hand in hand. Use one to inspire the other. 

Solidify the pathways of knowledge in your mind by performing the right actions associated with the information you currently have to obtain some initial results. 

You can get good at almost anything if you’re confident enough to step into the arena and learn the valuable lessons that come with being a beginner. 

Even the most wise and renown individuals, whose work may have changed the trajectory of history, started at a certain point with very little insight into what they now know as second nature. They just kept compounding the right knowledge and applying it over time.

The optimal way forward is to use both knowledge and action in order to make the right connections and progress at a faster pace. Having all the information in the world doesn’t mean much if you never apply it. Having all the energy in the world doesn’t mean much if you’re scattered and always doing the wrong things. Combine both sides of the equation to get the best results possible.

There’s this false sense of superiority among people that think they know everything but lack the tangible results to back up any of their claims. They can spout facts and the current talking points at a whim but seem to lack the actual substance that would make these points valid. In essence, they constantly say one thing while doing another. The actions don’t match up with the information presented.

Most just seem to talk without any evidence. Emotion runs rampant and people hate the possibility of rejection or failure. They’ll do almost anything to preserve their own views and habits, no matter how nonsensical or detrimental they may be. Venturing off and testing their current hypothesis is too daunting of a task.

In this rapid paced world, the ones that continuously test and refine their methods will gain the wisdom they had been so desperately seeking at the beginning of the journey. The one’s that remain scattered on the sidelines will be left in the dust.

Learn actively and put every piece of knowledge you gain to the test. 

Add information that can help you get better. Discard information that is holding you back.

Never get caught up in thinking you’ve mastered something. 

There is always more to learn and systems are constantly evolving. 

Focus on the right skills that will get you where you need to go.

Become like a scientist for your own life. Create experiments. Test your theories. Analyze your results and collect the data needed. Solve the right problems and improve your methods moving forward. 

Take advantage of the tools that are in front of you. There’s no better time to get started. 

Cut out the noise. Focus on the blueprint. Use the knowledge that’s been given to you. Put the information into action. Continuously test and refine. Build your skillset. Become competent. Gain wisdom.

Enjoy the process of getting to new levels.