Our learning shows up in our doing.
Put differently, how we do things is our learning in action. If we don’t do it, we haven’t learnt it.
And, while learning and doing have this important relationship, the doing is not where the learning happens. Instead, the learning happens in the spaces between our actions.
In those spaces, we reflect, think, synthesize, and resolve to make the small changes for the next time we take action.
Often, when we design learning experiences, we over-optimize on the doing or the more academic study that we sometimes call learning. Both are important. Theory is important. Practice is also important.
But, to learn effectively, it is equally important to design those spaces in between as part of the learning process.
That’s where the magic of learning happens.
