What good is learning something without the willingness to put it into practice?

Today I talk about the "What - So What - Now What" model of learning and what it takes to get our knowledge from our heads to the world.

Michael Singer's work about Living From a Place of Surrender reminds us that being in the present means we get out of a mindset of either fear or desire. 

He says that if we suppress or if we express our emotions, we miss the opportunity to actually experience them and, eventually transmute them.

How would that change our ability to be present?