Knowledge…continuation

amanda — Sat, 03 May 2008 14:22:47 +0000

The third kind of knowledge is the one that we do not receive at school. We also do not get it from our parents. This is the knowledge that our parents did not have either. It is the most important knowledge, the knowledge of life. It is the knowledge of how to make money, how to succeed in life, how to set goals in the right way and how to achieve them, how to think in a right way. Our parents did not give us that knowledge, because they did not have it. You can not give something you don’t have. Only a few people on this planet are fortunate enough to be born in a family where the parents possess that knowledge. You and I were not the “fortunate” ones. But does that mean that we are doomed for failure? Not at all! We can get that knowledge. We can become very successful in life. You see, through our lives we were told that we can not do this, we can not do that, this is impossible…etc. We were conditioned for failure. As Bob Proctor said, “Taking in calculation our conditioning and what has happened to us, it is amazing that we are doing as well as we are.” How true!
You see, we are born perfect. We are persistent, born risk takers. How many times the little baby falls before it learns to walk? How many times the baby will get a bruise in pursuit of the difficult goal of walking? Yet, the baby will get up, and try again, taking the risk of falling. He/she falls and gets up again, and again. At the end the baby will get up one more time than he/she falls and finally…walks. The baby walks and everyone around cheers, proud of the baby’s accomplishment. The whole family is thrilled! The baby walks! The news goes over the whole neighborhood. It is a great start to the baby’s life, and than…the conditioning takes place.
Let’s look at a scenario going into the future of the baby. Now the baby is an adult. An adult that most of the time does not have a direction where to go, not to mention any idea of how to start the journey toward their dream. It is not the adult fault. He/she was not been taught how to set goals and go for them. But let’s say, somehow that adult decides what he/she wants. What happens now? All the conditioning, luck of the basic knowledge of life makes the adult nervous, worry and doubtful as it is. Let’s take a look at the surrounding world. The adult tells family, friends and maybe some other people about what he/she wants to achieve. Instead of the encouragement he/she got as a baby, now the adult gets strange looks on people’s faces and comments like. “It is an unrealistic goal.” “How are you going to do it?” “What about the resources?” Sometimes it can be even a “great” comment like…”Are you crazy?… that will stop that adult right in his/her tracks. The peer pressure, the uncertainty, the luck of knowledge how to really make it work, how to take an intelligent risk (that now is forgotten), the doubt, and the fear of failure and ridicule, is so overwhelming, that the adult does not know how to cope with it and abandons his/her dream and goes back to “reality” that he/she is not happy with.
I can only say that I am glad that we as babies are so persistent and we take the intelligent risk and clearly stick to our goal of walking, because the other way we all would be on all fours.

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Knowledge

amanda — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 23:24:37 +0000

“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…..

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