3 ms·
This activity you describe -- which I know a whole lot about -- does not really deserve the bad reputation that it has in American culture, let alone the terrib
by mechanical_fish 17y ago
This activity you describe -- which I know a whole lot about -- does not really deserve the bad reputation that it has in American culture, let alone the terrible reputation that it has on a website full of entrepreneurs. ;)
I believe it was J. Michael Straczynski -- author of, among other things, a pretty good book on screenwriting -- who said:
Do not confuse a love of reading with a desire to write.
There are lots of names for people who study things without doing them: Anthropologist, writer, scholar, historian, critic, fan, audience member. If you're constantly shying back from taking the leap into doing... listen to yourself! Perhaps your stomach is trying to tell you that you'll have more fun as an observer.
If, on the other hand, your stomach is telling you to jump, perhaps you should listen to that as well.
- billswift 17y agoThe problem isn't learning things, I love that. The problem is when you want to do something, and you keep thinking that learning a little more will help you get it done, then you never get to "getting it done" because there is always more you can learn.
- tlb 17y agoHow do you know what else you need to learn? The best way I know is to try doing whatever it is, and see what's hard. Sometimes you can fill in the gaps in real-time, sometimes you need to go back and study.
- billswift 17y agoLearning is itself addicting; for me it's almost as addicting, and a lot more fun than TV. Apparently, I'm not the first to feel this way; Heinlein's protagonist in "Have Space Suit, Will Travel" made a similar observation.