How to maintain a balance between knowledge and understanding? - deserves an answer as well. The clear meanings/definitions of knowledge and understanding will also need to inform this answer. Will you re-ask?
How indeed.
Knowledge of course implies understanding on some level, and is gained through seeking and observation, and ... well, understanding those observations. Understanding, which can constitute new knowledge, is gained through small paradigm shifts, as relationships, causes, effects, systems are theorized realized or understood through synthesis of knowledge, and understanding relationships between combinations of bits of knowledge.
So, knowledge processed becomes understanding. Understanding, in some cases can be said to be wisdom.
”Rainman” , The one in the movie, probably can be thought of as a person who is heavy on knowledge but light on understanding or wisdom.
I suppose one could be a person of great wisdom, and if one did not continue to explore knowledge, current events, or expand understanding, one might then get to be too heavy in the wisdom department... but I’m hard-pressed to find example of that!
So, How does one a balance between knowledge and, let us call it wisdom, understanding?
The answer seems intuitive, perhaps obvious, but perhaps equally as difficult to achieve.
Because the dance between knowledge and understanding of course, continues through our entire life, and it is that, a dance, and as in a dance one cannot actually remain in place, in one position, at One step in a Waltz, without going to the next.
It seems than that a strategy must be developed in order to keep this balance up. perhaps habits, traditions, or a schedule which allows time in life for both gathering of knowledge, and contemplation, writing out that knowledge expanding on it, in order to turn some of that knowledge into wisdom and understanding.
So we come back to a central theme, in Scott Peck’ book, the road less traveled, and that word is discipline. But the disciplines that one set up an exception to one’s life must be ones that in gender and allow directions that you wish to and she wants to go to unfold.
So if one wants to mint wisdom out of knowledge, in the same way Rumpelstiltskin minted gold out of straw, one needs to set up the dance, set up the daily schedule examine results and make changes in order to optimize the process, not dwelling too long on one or the other part of it.
Oh!
But most important of all! Minting of wisdom out of knowledge is not a one-man job. No one is really a rumple still skin. I’ve noticed that real wisdom comes out of sharing of thoughts and ideas, and not sharing leads to real knowledge and wisdom, not just sitting in a quiet room or basement trying to improve understanding. Seems that for humans, we are engineered to need to bad ideas back-and-forth between other humans to make real progress in this area.!
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Knowledge of course implies understanding on some level, and is gained through seeking and observation, and ... well, understanding those observations. Understanding, which can constitute new knowledge, is gained through small paradigm shifts, as relationships, causes, effects, systems are theorized realized or understood through synthesis of knowledge, and understanding relationships between combinations of bits of knowledge.
So, knowledge processed becomes understanding. Understanding, in some cases can be said to be wisdom.
”Rainman” , The one in the movie, probably can be thought of as a person who is heavy on knowledge but light on understanding or wisdom.
I suppose one could be a person of great wisdom, and if one did not continue to explore knowledge, current events, or expand understanding, one might then get to be too heavy in the wisdom department... but I’m hard-pressed to find example of that!
So, How does one a balance between knowledge and, let us call it wisdom, understanding?
The answer seems intuitive, perhaps obvious, but perhaps equally as difficult to achieve.
Because the dance between knowledge and understanding of course, continues through our entire life, and it is that, a dance, and as in a dance one cannot actually remain in place, in one position, at One step in a Waltz, without going to the next.
It seems than that a strategy must be developed in order to keep this balance up. perhaps habits, traditions, or a schedule which allows time in life for both gathering of knowledge, and contemplation, writing out that knowledge expanding on it, in order to turn some of that knowledge into wisdom and understanding.
So we come back to a central theme, in Scott Peck’ book, the road less traveled, and that word is discipline. But the disciplines that one set up an exception to one’s life must be ones that in gender and allow directions that you wish to and she wants to go to unfold.
So if one wants to mint wisdom out of knowledge, in the same way Rumpelstiltskin minted gold out of straw, one needs to set up the dance, set up the daily schedule examine results and make changes in order to optimize the process, not dwelling too long on one or the other part of it.
Oh!
But most important of all! Minting of wisdom out of knowledge is not a one-man job. No one is really a rumple still skin. I’ve noticed that real wisdom comes out of sharing of thoughts and ideas, and not sharing leads to real knowledge and wisdom, not just sitting in a quiet room or basement trying to improve understanding. Seems that for humans, we are engineered to need to bad ideas back-and-forth between other humans to make real progress in this area.!
