You CAN write a book! · Apr 17, 2026

The Knowing-Doing Gap (Or: Why I Keep Standing in My Own Way)

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There's a word for knowing exactly what you need to do and doing everything else instead. It's called akrasia. Here's what actually helps.

There is a word for what I’ve been doing to myself for the past few months.

In fact, Aristotle wrote about it and I know this because I went searching for it because searching for it was better than doing what I should have been doing. The word is akrasia and it means the state of acting against your own better judgment. Knowing the right thing to do — c…

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