Amanda Devine
Knowledge
April 27, 2008 on 5:24 am | In Knowledge |“Knowledge is power”. I am sure you have heard it many times in your life. There are three kind of knowledge I want to talk about:
1. Knowledge we get in school, high school, college, university etc.
2. Knowledge we gain every day to get better at what we do.
3. Knowledge of life.
They are all important, but some are more crucial to our success than the others.
Let’s analyze them one by one.
The knowledge we get at school gives us the information about the world we live in. It is important knowledge, but this is not the knowledge that gives us power to succeed in life. If you think that because you finished school and received degrees it will make you lots of money and give you happiness in life than you are very mistaken. But don’t get me wrong. The knowledge we get at school is important and it is a good start. I have a Master’s Degree in Psychology, yet it did not help me to make money and be prepared for life. It was useful only to a certain degree and it was a great start toward my career. But that is all, just a start.
The other kind of knowledge will get you much further. It is the knowledge we gain to become good at what we do. There are many people doing different things for their career, but there are only a few professionals. The professionals are the people who spend time every day to learn more about what they do. They are the ones that keep getting the knowledge and get better and better at their chosen profession. If you look carefully, they don’t spend lots of time getting it. Just 10-15 minutes a day on a continuous basis, over the period of time it all adds up to a huge amount of knowledge they gather. That is what distinguishes the real professionals from the rest.
To be continued…..
Amanda Devine
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Amanda, you missed some important criteria here. That college “piece of paper” gives you the upper hand, regardless of how stupid you really are after school or not. A person with a degree will be selected over someone with out a degree regardless of how many years of experience that person has, in today’s society.
I feel as though, experience, trumps all. Regardless of a degree, one will never amount to the amount of knowledge which is gained from doing, based from experience. College can show you what careers are considered “high paying” yet college, will never show you HOW to make that money for yourself. If you hate your job, then how valuable is that degree truly?
These things I ask myself constantly.
Comment by Colby — April 28, 2008 #