Are You Learning, or Are You Hiding? 🤔

Hey Friends….!!!

Hope you’re having a productive and meaningful week 🙏

Today i want to talk about something I see all the time, a trap I’ve fallen into myself more times than I can count.

You get that spark of an idea. “I’m going to build a mobile app!” or “I’m going to finally learn Python for data science!” or “I’m going to start my own blog!”

The excitement is real. You start researching. You open a dozen tabs, watch hours of YouTube tutorials, and buy a couple of highly rated books….It feels amazing, right? Every video you watch, every article you read, gives you a hit of dopamine…..It feels like you’re making massive progress. You tell yourself you’re just doing your due diligence. You want to be prepared and avoid the common mistakes.

But be honest for a moment: Are you learning, or are you just hiding?

This endless consumption isn’t progress….It’s “productive procrastination”…It gives us the feeling of moving forward without the risk of actually doing the thing and failing.

I was reminded of a powerful concept from Pat Flynn’s book….Lean Learning, that perfectly captures this idea….He uses a diagram to show that the amount of information you actually need to get started is tiny. A “minimum viable” amount.

The vast majority of your learning doesn’t happen before you start…It happens while you’re doing the thing….it’s grounded in real world action and feedback

Think about it like this: Imagine you want to learn how to code🧑‍💻

You could spend months learning the deep theory of computer science, studying different programming paradigms, and memorising design patterns….You could learn all about data structures, algorithms, and the history of Python.

But none of that will teach you how to code.

To learn how to code….all you really need is to know how to open a code editor and write a single line:

print("Hello, World!")

That’s it….That’s your starting point…You run it. Maybe you get a syntax error. You Google the error, fix it, and run it again….That loop action, failure, feedback, and correction is where 100% of the real learning happens.…Only once you’ve built a few simple things does it make sense to explore more advanced topics.

So if you catch yourself thinking, “I’ll start once I just watch one more video…” or “I’ll feel ready after I finish this book…”, remember that you’re chasing a feeling that will never arrive….The magic isn’t in the preparation…it’s in that first, messy, imperfect step.

Any new adventure🏕️ is always going to involve a little leap of faith.

I hope this was a useful reminder to take that leap 👌

Think about what’s one thing you’ve been researching that you can take a small, real action on this week..? Comment or message me to share your thoughts on this…

Have a fantastic world ahead, and go make some magic happen today! You’ve totally got this.

❤️ From…..
Jayesh Dantha