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KNOWING WHEN YOU
Well... as I rambled on and on about the merits of declaring. “I don’t ”—a few folks, in a gentle way, shook their heads and said—“okay , I understand what you are saying, however, there are things I need to know and I need to know when I know what I know.” This entry is a transition between. “Not knowing and understanding the. Process of seeking a functional level of certainty (otherwise known as knowing when you know).
Understanding. Information, Knowledge, and Wisdom (according to my school of philosophy)
“Information is Power” is something many of us have heard over the past couple of decades. We also heard we are living in the Information Age. You know, we went through the Stone Age, the Iron Age, the Middle Ages, the Age of Enlightenment (where they still commonly used blood letting. With leaches and burned people for being witches a and warlocks), the Industrial Age, and the golden age of radio—until we got to the Information Age. Some would argue that we are now in the “attention”age where the main commodity we seek, buy, and sell is attention. However, when asked.attention to what...many people fall back on information...so let’s look at that.
Information Saturation?
We have a tool, a unit of measure, known as the byte (a countable. Digital representation of data to tell us how much information we are producing and storing these days. I’ll droop a link below to give you the facts on this, however, some highlights might be very illuminating. In the past couple of years we have produced as a planet a staggering amount of information. In fact, 90% of all the information ever produced and collected/saved by humans has been accumulated in the past two or three years. We do about 40,000 google searches a minute. We produce somewhere over 4 million YouTube videos a minute...
Talk about getting a sip of water with a fire hose.... Or maybe it’s more like trying to fuel your car by dipping it into a swimming pool filled with gasoline? Let’s stick with that car metaphor for a few paragraphs.
So if knowing when you know only hinged on. How much information. You have or could get, everyone should know everything about just. About everything by now or maybe next week at the latest. So if knowing is not about information—maybe there’sa a difference between information and knowledge. And wisdom?
Knowledge—
If information is the fuel we use to think then knowledge is the car we fuel with it. So is it going to work if you roll. Down the window and pump the gas in? How about if you fill up the trunk with petrol—you know Pinto style—? How about putting a drop or two in the glove compartment. Of. Course there is no room left in that center console place where you have some important papers, an old pen that may write every now and then, a receipt fort 7 gallons of gas, beef jerky, that healthy granola bar and some M&Ms, 67 cents in loose change—and what’s this? Yes! My ABBA cassette that I’ve moved from car to car since 1979. Anyway you get the point the gasoline has to get into the gas tank where it. Can make it’s way into the. Motor. Until then gasoline is not really fuel per se because it hasn’t been put where it can be. Used. Once it is then it’s fuel. In the seeking peace and joy world having information is okay, but not valuable until it fits into a thinking or feeling process. So information becomes knowledge at that point. How much time do we spend as a society/w2orld concerned with the many ways to turn information into fuel...to turn data into knowledge? We have become experts at getting people information whether. Or not we want or need it... We have learned to use information as a criteria for entry into careers , health care systems, databases etc... We grade children on how much information they can. Retain and retrieve. Precious little time is spent exploring how we gather, process, and share information in values-based ways or even in any way whatsoever ever. With the exception of a couple of teachers and close friends very few people I know has volunteered their views or helped me explore how information is converted/processed... It. Would seem. That with so much information to process a bit more attention might be paid to this and definitely in seeking peace and joy the information processing engine can serve us and others and thus is worth some focus—-and in a couple of weeks this blog will go there.
So lt’s climb in our car and drive.... Well here we sit in the parking lot driving around. In circles—-why?—because we haven’t figured out what to type into. Our GPS as a destination. It doesn’t matter how much fuel you have or how much of it is in your fancy car if you have no idea where you are going or why you are going there.... and that my friend is the. Difference between information, knowledge, and wisdom.. As a very smart professor. Of mine once said. Those who know Howe will likely always have a job, however those who know why will. Almost always be their boss.” In the world of seeking personal peace and joy and responsibility being one’s own centered. ‘Boss” or captain of the process of making. Meaning from one’s experiences means taking the time to understand your purpose your. Channel, your glow so to speak. Often times this comes from learning the lessons offered by a wide variety of. Experiences and connecting with l a wide variety of people who offer. A range of examples of. How to process information and examples a of purposes they seem to have chosen (or the lack thereof). Ironically or Luckily once a purpose is settled upon it is easier to determine how much fuel is needed, wheat kind of car is best, how fast you need to travel etc. Sure sometimes you will have to go to several restaurants before you know the best. Place to get a ham and cheese omelet, or that you’d rather have biscuits. And gravy, however that just means you will get into your car and travel down a few roads—to learn some more—be okay with that as long as you keep your car running okay.
The point is...once you know you were meant to be a food tester. For a living you can google The Drake in Burlington, Jonesy’s inb Solonb, Tony’s I-75 l in Mid Michigan or the Golden Arches supper club almost anywhere preservatives are shaped into the form of food.
so coming around full circle like when you miss your turn on that damn “around-about”—you will know when you know when the information you get fuels the knowledge/concepts. You use to think with and that’s thinking helps you experiment with or pursue a values driven purpose.
Anywhere in that process...which is often is various segments of your life at any given point... it is very reasonable and quite accurate to say....
I DON’T KNOW...OR I DON’T KNOW YET!!!
Sure you can act without. Always knowing with 100% certainty and doing so is an excellent chance to learn about how your knowledge is working or is your wisdom needs to be reconsidered.
The point of all these recent posts is pretty much that there is power in saying I don’t know. Doing this is a gift to others telling them that your process is not complete and that you are aware of that. It also means you have the courage to share your. Learning spirit and humanity. Then seeking peace and Joy embracing that learning spirit and. Your human experiences as a spiritual being has been super valuable for me.
So what’s up next????
I need a breathe..and so do you...so the next. Couple of entries are going to be about Breathing—we all do it!!!Regardless of how. Many pairs of Nike’s we own...
Link about. The. Production of information
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