The gap between knowing & doing
What makes us capable of choosing what matters, with every decision?
Hi, I'm Lindsay
We usually know more than we think we do.
We know the conversation we need to have. We know the boundary we need to set.
We know the risk we want to take.
We know the kind of parent, partner, leader, or person we want to be.
And still, knowing doesn't always become doing.
I'm interested in what happens in that gap.
What makes one hard thing feel possible and another impossible? What allows us to stay with discomfort long enough to choose what matters instead of simply choosing whatever makes the discomfort stop?
Questions I'm exploring...
Capacity
What makes us capable of staying with discomfort long enough to still have access to choice? Why can someone have enormous capacity in one area of life and almost none in another?
Productive Discomfort
Not at discomfort should be endured. But some discomfort is simply the cost of growth and doing something that matters. How do we learn to tell the difference?
Where Capacity gets built
What happens when children (and adults) have safe environments to encounter discomfort without someone immediately making it disappear? What roles do relationships play?
The gap between knowing and doing
Many spend enormous amounts of time helping people understand what they should do. But knowing has never guaranteed action. What actually happens between intention and behavior?
Bring this conversation into the room.
I speak with organizations, parents, educators, leaders, entrepreneurs, and communities about the gap between knowing and doing, and what helps us build the capacity to choose what matters when choosing it is uncomfortable.
The Gap Between Knowing & Doing
This talk explores what actually happens in the space between knowing what we should do and being Abel to act on it, and how our experiences with discomfort can expand or restrict our ability to choose.
Keynotes - Talks - Workshops - Lunch & Learns - Podcasts & Conversations
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I've had a lot of places to observe the same question
For more than 15 years, my work has moved across performing arts, alternative education, entrepreneurship, consulting, leadership, parenting, and creating spaces and experiences for children, family, teams, and communities.
On the surface, those things don't necessarily belong together. But I kept seeing versions of the same thing.
People standing on the edge of something that mattered to them, and discovering what happened when doing it required discomfort. I don't think any of those experiences make me an expert on how someone should live their life, they've just given me a lot of environments to observe the same question.
These days, I write and speak about what I'm noticing.
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