Bring the conversation into the room.
I speak about the gap between knowing what matters and actually doing it, and what helps us build the capacity to choose what matters when choosing it is uncomfortable.
The Gap Between Knowing & Doing
We spend enormous amounts of time helping people understand what they should do.
And yet knowing has never guaranteed action.
We know the conversation we need to have. The boundary we need to set. The risk we want to take. The kind of parent, partner, leader, or person we want to be.
And still, knowing doesn’t always become doing.
The Gap Between Knowing & Doing explores what happens in that space, and how our capacity to tolerate productive discomfort can give us more freedom to choose what matters instead of simply choosing whatever makes the discomfort stop.
Questions we’ll explore
- Why can we know exactly what matters and still struggle to do it?
- What makes one difficult thing feel possible and another impossible?
- What is productive discomfort, and how do we distinguish it from discomfort that tells us something needs to change?
- How does capacity get built through small, repeated experiences?
- What changes when we can stay with discomfort long enough to choose rather than simply react?
Every rep expands the space between
“this is uncomfortable”
and
“I need this moment to end.”
And inside that space, we get to decide.
We don’t build capacity by knowing more about hard things. We build it through experiences of doing hard things, and discovering that we can.
Take the rep.
One conversation. A lot of different rooms.
I’ve spent the last 15 years working across performing arts, alternative education, entrepreneurship, consulting, and leadership, and I’ve watched versions of the same knowing-and-doing gap show up everywhere.
This conversation can be shaped for organizations, leadership teams, educators, parents, schools, conferences, retreats, and communities.
- Keynotes
- Workshops
- Professional Development
- Parent & Community Talks
- Podcasts & Conversations
Want to go deeper?
The keynote introduces the ideas. Workshops give people room to work with them.
Workshops can create space for participants to identify where their own gap between knowing and doing is showing up, examine the discomfort underneath it, and consider the reps that might expand their capacity to move through it.
Workshops can be adapted to the questions and context already present in your organization or community.
About Lindsay
Lindsay Prather is a writer and speaker exploring the gap between knowing what matters and actually doing it.
Her thinking has been shaped by more than 15 years working across performing arts, alternative education, entrepreneurship, consulting, and leadership, along with parenting, relationships, and her own encounters with the uncomfortable distance between knowing and doing.
