{"id":8591,"date":"2015-05-22T16:07:52","date_gmt":"2015-05-22T20:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/?p=8591"},"modified":"2015-05-22T17:14:54","modified_gmt":"2015-05-22T21:14:54","slug":"dont-know-how","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/2015\/05\/22\/dont-know-how\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Know How"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ttr_start\"><\/div><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/KnowingDoing.png\" alt=\"practice\" width=\"660\" height=\"248\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8597\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/KnowingDoing.png 660w, https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/KnowingDoing-300x112.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Is there a way to know how to do something without first doing it?<\/p>\n<p>Can I know how to play the piano without first playing it?<\/p>\n<p>Can I possibly, truly know how to do anything without having done it first?<\/p>\n<p>I need practice. I need to learn how to do the thing I desire. I need to do it, to know it. I need to make mistakes.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know how. I&#8217;ve never done this before. I have to practice, and I have to allow for the mistakes I&#8217;ll make while I learn. It feels fair to provide myself understanding of this.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes, my mistakes are more valuable than my triumphs. Sometimes, my mistakes teach me, and grow me, in ways far more transformative.<\/p>\n<p>I need both the highs and the lows for my confidence to grow. The pain and the pleasure are necessary teachers to know how.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t wholly know how without experiencing both. I need their practice. I need to know I can handle both in order to confidently know I can do.<\/p>\n<p><em>photo credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/wwworks\/6515412933\/\" title=\"woodleywonderworks\" target=\"_blank\">woodleywonderworks<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"ttr_end\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is there a way to know how to do something without first doing it? Can I know how to play the piano without first playing it? Can I possibly, truly know how to do anything without having done it first? I need practice. I need to learn how to do the thing I desire. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[43,468,44,35,193,469,334,34],"class_list":["post-8591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-growing","tag-action","tag-confidence","tag-doing","tag-growth","tag-knowing","tag-mistakes","tag-practice","tag-success"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}