Our ability to execute is a by-product of our learning. Our learning constantly gets better when we test those theories as we execute.
It makes sense that we spend most of the first part of our lives learning because learning is the low hanging fruit (whether all the learning we do at school actually prepares us for the world is a different matter). It helps us avoid the obvious mistakes.
The trouble is that this design often naturally results in extremes. Many go into the academic path and choose to never bother with execution. Many others get into “the real world” and never bother with learning. While the former is stuck in an endless loop of theorizing with some safe experimentation, the other is stuck in an endless loop of execution without feeling the need to learn.
So, imagine what the world would like if we married the two? If the academics who theorized spent some time in the real world or designed their experiments to work in the real world, and if executives kept up with the latest theory and added the knowledge to their experience.
Magic. That’s what it is.
A Learning a Day 