Thinking is fast, linear, from A to B, fail-safe designed (Panarchy, 2002. p.27).
Doing takes turns, trial and errors, persistence, adaptiveness, variability, and unpredictability-focused (Panarchy, 2002. p.27).
This difference comes from the gap between ideal-self and real self which co-exist and affect us subtly. ”Serenity to accept what we can not change, courage to change what we can, the wisdom to tell the difference”. We should change the narrative as ”we are gaining a new understanding” (real-self), instead of saying that ”we should know this earlier ”(ideal-self).
I gradually realise that the ability to tell apart things/concepts/feelings/phenomena/narratives and etc., is very core and valuable, this reminds me of this interesting book I encountered recently:
If we feel like we are endlessly doing something, it probably indicates that we are doing multiple things at the same time unconsciously. Like when I am preparing my seminar slides, it seems that I am just finishing the content on slides, while I am also contemplating on the logic in my speech, the logic of animation, the aesthetic…
In this case, we tend to feel frustrated because we always feel like we didn’t manage to ”finish” anything although we are making progress in everything…
Source: author’s own work (will adjust it further)
Lots of goals are moving targets: we need right understanding, right solution to right context. When, where, who, how, what?
The nice thing about logic is that we only need to illustrate them once!
The nice thing about learning is that we can learn it everywhere anytime, which all starts from observation and reflection!
In doing, we do not put emphasis on obvious (external) validation too much. Like we do not manage to publish the article, but we found a wonderful journal to read articles from and learn about the way of doing researching.
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