Written on September 23, 2007@ 9:32 am –
To Learn Is To Know, To Do Is To Understand
You have probably learned it somewhere.
You have probably heard it from someone.
You have probably read it yesterday.However, you will never understand it, until you do it yourself.
Never underestimate your own experience. That’s the message I want to convey in this post.
It is so easy to know about something. Thus, knowledge is cheap. The next step, understanding, is hard. Wisdom is expensive. Founder of Matsushita Electric, Konosuke Matsushita said “Wisdom is something that one must earn by raising his sleeves, work hard and put his whole energy into what he is doing.”
Let me show you how easy it is to acquire knowledge, especially these days.
If you need to know about how to drive traffic to your website all you have to do is go to Google and type “web traffic generation method” or something like that. That’s it and BAM! you have the knowledge in your hand.
Or if you want to save your time you can find someone who is already do the research for you and serve all the meat. All you have to is pay a small fee to get that traffic generation information instantly.
See how easy it is?
But … can you really say that you fully understand how to drive traffic to your website?
Not until you put your knowledge to work you will understand it.
Is there anything systematic that can help you understand something?
You bet there is. It is called PDCA cycle.
Plan, Do, Check, Action. The simplest cycle of activities that can help you reach understanding on any subject available.
PLAN
As is. Plan what you’re going to do. Remember that smart kings plan things before engaging war. This plan will play an important role in this PDCA cycle. You can make this plan by yourself or use ready-made plan included in system you bought.
At initial cycle, both self-made and ready-made plan is workable.
DO
This is the part where you or someone else execute your plan.
CHECK
On this part, you will extensively gather data from every execution you performed. You will not leave anything missing. You will gather data even though the results is not the kind of results you want. You will need these data to perform your check.
Check on what?
Check on your plan. You want to traceback what went good and what went wrong with your plan. You want to find out what cause the results and extract those causing factors.
Most people ignore this “check” step, let alone the next step: “action”.
ACTION
In this stage, you will separate factors that bring good results and bad results. You want to keep the good ones and think how to replace or alter factors that bring bad results.
You need to think very hard during this step. Use every usable brain cell you have.
After you had a breakthrough moment. Go to the “plan” step and take action to embed what you came up with in your next plan.
At this time, you have done one full cycle of PDCA. Repeat the cycle endlessly. Continuous improvement or Kaizen, TOYOTA says. Wisdom will emerge within you.
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