Workbook
The Gap Between Knowing and Doing
Why You Have the Answer and Are Not Using It
You finish with a map of every knowing-doing gap — and the first step taken for each.
For the person who has the neck fan and is still complaining about the heat. For the person who has the dentist and is still complaining about the tooth. For the person who has the solution and is not taking the step. This workbook is about the space between having the answer and acting on it — the specific psychological, emotional, and logistical barriers that make smart people with resources remain stuck in solvable problems.
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Having the answer is not the same as using it — this workbook is about the space between them. The Gap Between Knowing and Doing maps the specific barrier keeping you from each solution you already hold — whether it is fear, logistics, identity, the cost of admitting you have been wrong, or something harder to name — and walks you through what it would take to close it. It is for the person who has the dentist and is still complaining about the tooth, who has the fan and is still hot, who has the answer and is still in the problem — smart, resourced, and stuck in something solvable. You finish with a documented gap map — every blocked solution named, every specific barrier surfaced, every first step taken.
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Sample questions
- What do you know that you are not acting on — the specific thing, not the general category?
- How long have you had the answer that you have not yet used?
- What would your life look like in six months if you closed the gap you just named?
Research basis
Grounded in Kegan and Lahey (2009) immunity-to-change research on the competing commitments that block execution of known intentions / implementation intention research (Gollwitzer, 1999) on the if-then planning gap between goal commitment and action initiation / self-regulation literature on the specific conditions under which individuals who know what to do fail to do it.
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