Saturday, March 7, 2009

What barriers leading us not to know something?

Before we know anything, there could be something we “not know” that we therefore search and study to know. It is simple, right?

However, we also run into many barriers on not allowing us to really know.

One obvious barrier is that you assume you know everything about the subject that you do not need to bother to look for any area you may not know; or no need to verify or evaluate the body of knowledge you have without any false, useless or conflicting data to see they really can apply in this universe; that help you really master the subjects you are proud of. You may easily find such attitudes especially from the so called “expert” or “authority”.

Another extreme of barrier could be some kind of attitudes, or false attitudes from someone or any authority, that the subject could not be known, and no one has ever attempted to know in the past that it is a total mystery. If you assume any area that can’t be known, you of course will not know something about it. Or it you may wreck your “talent” when you agreed with someone who told you that you did not have the talent to know about something.

So you see your attitudes of what you know, what you not know, what you can know and what you can’t know can determine how much you can really know about the subject.

You can also see from the above on how this is related with one’s education.

Hence, one’s education depends on the attitude that something can be known about, and know what you not know and then look to find out what you can know.

Such attitude is not restricted to any formal education system, but any aspect of life as one can do something on what one knows.

When you try to hat or train anyone on any post of your company, you may find the above helpful to identify what attitudes about knowing something from your staff. You may be surprised to discover those who can identify the areas of "not knowing" with the idea that that can be known, is easier to train than those who tell you how much they have already known about the subject.

I hope the above tip may help.

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