A while ago, I came across an insight by blogger Angie Mizzell that has stayed with me:
“They never really tell you how unsettling it feels,” she wrote, “to be a parent, while simultaneously trying to figure out how to be a parent.”
So well put. It struck me that these words hold true for almost everything important we do. We are husbands and wives while we learn how to be husbands and wives. We care for aging parents while learning how to care for aging parents. We learn how to deal with fear while afraid. We learn how to lead while leading. We learn to do our jobs while doing them. We have to fix the plane while flying it.
As Charlie Gilkey has written at his blog, we have to fix the plane while flying it.
The Most Important Skill You Can Learn
Yet most of us forget, again and again, that learning-while-doing is what we’re all up to. We walk through life feeling like we are supposed to know, projecting that other people know, and feeling stressed out when we don’t know.
more info here:
http://www.xomba.com/10_practices_learning_while_doing
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