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Knowledge

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Each day we gather facts and information.  Every moment lived exposes information to you and builds your knowledge base.

This information, including with the skills acquired through experience and formal or informal education,enables you to develop a theoretical or practical understanding of any subject (depending on the data, information, experience, and training you are able to acquire.

Use your knowledge

The knowledge you gain becomes  most useful through understanding  and being aware of and embracing with this information of a fact or situation.

To phrase it an other way having  knowledge is of little value if you don’t use it.  Treating knowledge like buried treasure is of little value.  If not accessed and employed purposefully the knowledge you have is wasted.

Share

You should both aquire and employ knowledge to the full extent possible. Having knowledge has the potential for positive outcomes, of course the potential for misuse does exist as well.

Using your knowlwdge will lead to success but abusing it will not.  Keeping knowledge to yourself is a form of abuse.  Sharing increases both the power of your knowledge, you share others share and voila, more is known.

Holding your knowledge tight to your chest is less likely to benefit both you and others.  Being altruistic in this case is not as much selfless as it is a way to gather more knowlege.

The more you know themore likely you are to succeed.

 

Random thoughts – keeping you on your toes

Curiosity

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Being inquisitive, that is having a healthy sense of curiosity means you a have desire to learn and know about anything and everything.  Of course, as the well known saying goes, ” curiosity killed the cat”

This is a cautionary note, a reminder really to practice balance in everything.

While knowledge can be a powerful tool in helping you reach your goals or assist others with theirs, misuse arising  from misunderstanding or an incomplete picture can lead to negative results.

Worrying Yourself

Often when we think others have information they are not sharing (restricted or secret information) we get upset.  This can drive curiosity, but this is generally not a healthy curiosity.

Care is needed in attempting to gather information others might not want you to have.  This could be used by them as leverage to get a reaction from you if someone realizes what you are doing.

As well, you can worry about the unknown and make up scenarios that might be far from reality.  This can lead to actions on your part which you may later regret.

Self Control

There will always be things others know and you don’t.  And of course things no one knows.  Seeking knowledge in a balanced way lets you control how much, when and what you do with it.

Knowledge that others have, unknown to you won’t impact you.  Once that information becomes known to you it might have an effect but there is little value in seeking it out in advance.

To what purpose?  Even advance knowledge could be worrisome.  My advice, relax, all will unfold in the fullness of time.

 

 

Random thoughts – keeping you on your toes

Are you a scholar?

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Depending on the context, the definition of a scholar can vary. A very simple way of describing a scholar is a person who has studied a subject for a long time and knows a lot about it : an intelligent and well-educated person who knows a particular subject very well.  The scholar is a fount of knowledge on a topic.

In the specific cases of academic or religious scholars,  the context narrows the definition, that is specific parameters and measures are used to indicate when scholarly status is achieved (for example a cleric title or a degree – e.g. PhD) beyond the simple definition above.

Knowledge

I have always enjoyed the simple quadrant model of knowledge

Knowledge 3

From an individual perspective, for any subject, there are the known aspects (Q1 and Q3), things others know but you don’t (Q2),and the totally unknown – no one knows (Q4).

Arguably for a scholar the majority of information about a topic is known (because they have studied it).  This correlates to Q1 and Q3.  For a scholar, quadrants Q2 and Q4 should very small (the scholar knows everything so it is unlikely you know something they don’t or that nobody knows)

A Lifelong Search

A true scholar believes the knowledge only others know (Q2) or no one knows (Q4) is always present and they are engaged in a life long search to uncover it.

Who Cares?

Scholars, whether in the areas of research, education or religion are of value to society if they are willing (and capable) of sharing their knowledge.

Everyone can classify their personal knowledge quadrant on any topic.  A scholar (with information in Q2) can share with you by moving their knowledge to Q1 or Q3 and benefiting not only you personally but all of society.

False Knowledge

The caveat both about sharing and receiving scholarly information is the need to validate.  Not everything shared with you is correct or accurate.  Of course you could always do a google search on the internet to find out if the knowledge being shared with you was accurate (joking).

The Final Conceit

As this blog is sharing scholarly information I hav,e which you may not have (that is my quadrant 2) I guess I am a kind of a scholar.