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BEYOND KNOWLEDGE
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We may know so many things already, even though there's still a lot we just don't know yet.
The fact that sometimes our knowledge may be inaccurate or insufficient, is a different ball game altogether.
The thing is: what do we do when we know - and rightly so - that what we know about a thing is accurate and sufficient, devoid of bias or unhealthy sentiments?
The dearth of pragmatic application of knowledge is a very serious problem, notwithstanding whether the subjects or objects of our knowledge are physical, spiritual or mental.
When we do not apply a certain knowledge, the essence of acquiring it is lost.
Where such is the case, it would have been better to be ignorant in the first place.
This is irrespective of the quality or volume of what we know but perpetually neglect or fear to apply.
There are more people who stop at the point of having knowledge than those who walk the extra mile into experiences that stem from an application of the knowledge they possess. Such experiences are only at the instance of deliberate efforts geared towards transmitting knowledge into action.
When we know what needs to be done to cause some positive change, fix a fault, solve a problem, make us better persons, etc., we ought to go beyond the "knowing" to the "doing" of what we know.
How exactly?
After you've known what to do, seek wisdom, in order to obtain strategies on how to go about doing what you've known.
When wisdom grants you clear strategies, seek understanding on how to apply such strategies. When you've gained understanding, proceed to do that which you need to do.
This is how to move forward, off endless cycles. This is how to live deliberately and responsibly, beyond knowledge and too much talks about what we know.
© Ogbole Agala
We may know so many things already, even though there's still a lot we just don't know yet.
The fact that sometimes our knowledge may be inaccurate or insufficient, is a different ball game altogether.
The thing is: what do we do when we know - and rightly so - that what we know about a thing is accurate and sufficient, devoid of bias or unhealthy sentiments?
The dearth of pragmatic application of knowledge is a very serious problem, notwithstanding whether the subjects or objects of our knowledge are physical, spiritual or mental.
When we do not apply a certain knowledge, the essence of acquiring it is lost.
Where such is the case, it would have been better to be ignorant in the first place.
This is irrespective of the quality or volume of what we know but perpetually neglect or fear to apply.
There are more people who stop at the point of having knowledge than those who walk the extra mile into experiences that stem from an application of the knowledge they possess. Such experiences are only at the instance of deliberate efforts geared towards transmitting knowledge into action.
When we know what needs to be done to cause some positive change, fix a fault, solve a problem, make us better persons, etc., we ought to go beyond the "knowing" to the "doing" of what we know.
How exactly?
After you've known what to do, seek wisdom, in order to obtain strategies on how to go about doing what you've known.
When wisdom grants you clear strategies, seek understanding on how to apply such strategies. When you've gained understanding, proceed to do that which you need to do.
This is how to move forward, off endless cycles. This is how to live deliberately and responsibly, beyond knowledge and too much talks about what we know.
© Ogbole Agala
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