We could write up procedures and provide parts and tools to teach people how to build bicycles. And, left on their own, many people would be able to use our instructions to build bicycles. 

We could write up procedures to teach people how to ride those bicycles.  And, left on their own, most people would struggle learning how to ride those bicycles.

There is Knowledge.

And there is Skill.

These are two very different things.

And, one does not necessarily follow the other.

Knowledge can be digested and learned quickly.

As the saying goes, ‘Knowledge is not power…it is potential power’. Knowledge becomes power only when it can be harnessed and put to good use...and that takes Skill!

Skill is developed by doing actions and learning over time though trial, error, and adaptation.

People struggle to develop skills.

Those who expect quick & easy success often give up long before they have spent enough time to develop the skills required to master tasks. Others - the people who succeed at performance of tasks - have the gift of persistence/perseverance/tenacity and use that energizing gift to drive repeated trial-error-adaptation cycles of action…for as long as it takes to master skills.

Successful people do not give up on skill development. That is the essence of success.

About the energizing-gift that allows the development of skill…

As another saying goes, ‘Edison learned 10,000 ways to not make a light bulb before he discovered one way that worked’.