Cross-posted from Future Startup. Tacit knowledge or implicit knowledge—as opposed to formal, codified, or explicit knowledge—is knowledge that is difficult to express or extract, and thus more difficult to transfer to others by means of writing it down or verbalizing it. (Source) Tacit knowledge is skills and knowledge that you...
Cross-posted and lightly edited from Future Startup. Put Your Ass Where Your Heart Wants to Be is my fourth book by Steven Pressfield. Previously, I enjoyed reading his excellent The War of Art, an all-time favorite among creative types, Do the Work and Turning Pro. Naturally, I had certain expectations....
Cross-posted from Future Startup.
Tacit knowledge or implicit knowledge—as opposed to formal, codified, or explicit knowledge—is knowledge that is difficult to express or extract, and thus more difficult to transfer to others by means of writing it down or verbalizing it. (Source)
Tacit knowledge is skills and knowledge that you learn intuitively or perceptually instead of active studying or training.
Active training helps, of course, but it’s hard to verbalize these skills—for instance, riding a bike or learning a particular branch of martial art. It is hard to learn martial art by merely reading a book about it. You have to go to a dojo and learn under a teacher. Most of these skills are... (read 2045 more words →)
Cross-posted and lightly edited from Future Startup.
Put Your Ass Where Your Heart Wants to Be is my fourth book by Steven Pressfield. Previously, I enjoyed reading his excellent The War of Art, an all-time favorite among creative types, Do the Work and Turning Pro. Naturally, I had certain expectations.
Steven understands the trial and tribulation of creative life. Being an author himself, I think part of the understanding comes from his lived experience. The rest of it, as Steven puts it, comes from “the muse”.
Put Your Ass Where Your Heart Wants to Be can be called a follow-up of The War of Art. Steven introduced the idea of Resistance with a capital R... (read 2845 more words →)