You Know

Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes. ~ Peter Drucker

Knowing something from actually doing, is something altogether. Sure you can know how riding a bike works: Your knees pump forward in a circular motion. However, if you never rode a bike before, you would probably find the contraption unsteady, and you would certainty wobble. Although, you knew how to make it work, it was very different from maybe how you perceived or was told. Knowing something will always be different from actually doing.

In life, there is so much knowledge, and it's so easy to access. A hundred years ago, people had to go to libraries and look for knowledge or use trial by error. It wasn't a matter of instance. However, despite all this knowledge that we have, people still don't put it to good use. We know things, but we don't really know why or how.

If you talk to a druggy or a smoker and you ask them,”You do realize this is bad for you.” Most likely they will say, "I know". The thing is we know that things are wrong or bad, but we never actually enact on it.

In fact, we all know that veggies are good for us and what kind of lifestyle is good for us. But the challenge is this, do you really know why things are things? Sometimes the things that we do are mere superstition.It would seem that a lot of things that we do is just because we have heard or things you just do.

Furthermore, even though we are so "knowledgeable", if we do things just blindly, sometimes we do not see the ramifications of our action or our inaction. There is a real danger: If we believe something to be good, when it's actually bad or vice versa, we run the risk of missing something good, or enduring something bad. Put it this way, would an all veggie diet really be beneficial to you, or do you believe so because veggies are suppose to be inherently good?

The thing is, some things, until you experience it, you will truly never know.

Ultimately, experience and knowledge are two different things. Despite having knowledge or easy access to it, it does not mean that we will be able to recreate what we know. While someone may be knowledgeable, it does not make them wise. Wisdom is the ability to use knowledge correctly. Furthermore, a lot of things that we supposedly know may need some revision.