If you explain to a person in detail how to breathe when swimming a crawl, he will, of course, immediately understand everything, if he is not stupid. However, after starting to swim, it is enough to inhale the water once and all this understanding disappears. Fear of drowning instantly turns on the “antediluvian” amygdala instead of the “advanced” neocortex. This phenomenon is called “The Knowing-Doing Gap.” By the way, there is a book with this title in which Stanford professors Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert I. Sutton explore why so many companies fail to implement the insights they’ve worked so hard to acquire.
There is too great a difference between understanding something with the mind and with the whole body, both physical and corporate. The advantage of the mind is freedom from any restrictions or norms. One can enter or change any parameter to obtain an ideal. The disadvantage of reflection, however, is that the mind does not interact with reality itself, but only with its model. And no matter how sophisticated the terrain map, it will always be inferior to the literal terrain in relevance, detail, and nuance.
Knowing all this, an experienced coach will certainly try to impart treasures of knowledge to a novice, but will never chase him over the buoys, much less in a storm. Instead, in the student’s mind, the coach will build a bridge between the way things are and the way things should be. This is achieved with the help of leading exercises, for example, when holding on to the float with one hand and wearing flippers, you just have to turn your head to one side to take a breath. It’s like a prototype technological product-it’s primitive, awkward, and strange, but it contains deep meaning. Something imperfect, like a mock-up, a draft or a blanks, turns out to be the perfect means to make the transition from zero to one.
Yours sincerely,
-Alexander
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