“What's the point of this?” - Practice vs Theory

If you have no direction or a clear goal set for the future, you’re more than likely to feel lost. You won’t know why you’re putting your efforts into something and will feel unmotivated. The crucial question you have to answer is:

“What's the point of this?”

You can learn all the technical skills you want. You can learn all the theories and understand the concept down to the core. But what’s the point if you don’t know what to do with it?

When you learn something, think about the end goal in mind. Think about the big picture, and how it will apply to your life. Learning isn’t about memorization and definition. I’ve realized that learning gets more interesting when you can apply it to real life.

Practice applying what you learnt. Put theory to practice. Be prepared to fail and to find unexpected results, but understand that they will all be learning experiences.

“In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.”

This statement By Yogi Berra is a truth-clarifying statement in and of itself. It seems to me to require no other explanation and is beautiful in it's own simplicity, expansive in it's import and inspiring in it's paradoxical nature. Nothing else to say, really.

Practice trumps theory!