Hi, I'm Sarah and I'm Helen and this is the Squiggly Careers podcast. Every week we talk about a

different topic to do with work and we share some ideas and some actions that we hope will help

you to navigate your squiggly career with that bit more clarity and confidence. So today we're

talking about the knowing, doing gap. And I think this is one

where the minute you start diving into this, you realise there are so many things that we know

we, quote unquote, should do. And actually we've got the knowledge about, but for some reason,

it doesn't quite translate into what we actually do.

And so people talk quite a lot about the say-do gap, but I think that's a slightly different

thing. That's sort of where you've almost perhaps being disingenuous. You say one thing,

but then you don't actually follow through on it. I do think perhaps that is slightly worse.

But the knowing-doing gap, you know, it's sort of like you've you've got the knowledge you've got the know how

I think actually practically like almost like rationally and objectively you know this thing

makes sense but for some reason it just doesn't show up it's not what you do and actually it can be

quite hard to figure out like well why not and then like how do I do something about this because you know these can be quite a big source out, like, well, why not? And then, like, how do I do something about this?

Because, you know, these can be quite a big source of frustrations, I think.

And before I share my perspective on this, I need to just apologise.

With a cold.

I've got a cold, a bit nasally.

We're just going to have to go with it because the podcast doesn't stop, even when you

already have a cold. But we thought we'd try and share some sort of common knowing, doing gaps that we have seen with people that we work with. And we thought we shared some of ours as well. So some that you might relate to are when you know how to prioritise your work, like you got all the theory, but you still never feel like you're particularly in control of it. Or maybe you know that you should take breaks in your day, but you keep compromising your

boundaries. So you never have a lunch break, for example, you never finish on time. Or maybe you know

that you should take time to learn. You know, that's important, but it's always the last thing on your

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