Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Blog Post #36 - Vegetables and fruits - What you know, What you don't know ,what you know that you know and what you know you don't know.

You know the difference. It was in some biology class. Had great definition. Some thing about seeds something about part of plant. Something so basic our teachers ensured we knew the answer.

You know tomato is a vegetable while pear is a fruit. What about mushroom? Do you know what we call avocado?

These subtle knowledge differences Cheetah vs. Jaguar, Crocodile vs Alligator , Management vs leadership.

In the book   'Thinking Fast and Slow' the author talks about

1. What we know?
2. What we don't know?
3. Do we know if we know in memory? ( this category is ..that song lyric you know but you are not able to retrieve. the primary key is found the foreign key is lost)
4.Can we google?
5. Is it easy to ask some one else?
6. Is this worth knowing?
7. Will we remember this exercise of knowing about knowing?

The central idea I used to believe is ' Knowledge is power' . I believe now that 'Acted knowledge is more powerful'.

What use is the knowledge?

A central database of knowledge is now available at your finger tips.
Intelligence = information retrieval + applicability

Do you know that stuff? Have you seen it? Where did you hear/see/read about it?
Who know if you know? Who cares if you know? Should anyone care that you don't know?

With Wikipedia and Google we believe we don't need to learn number of countries in the world today. ( default answer before USSR was split i used to know now i dont know.. that should tell you how old my friend are)

When you watch Olympics next year in Brazil check how many countries participate?

Do you care? Should you?

When world soccer is played again in Brazil look for football players ( erase the word soccer for few days) and enjoy the world sport.?

How many countries will come? Why will they came? What dreams will they bring?

In short, learn how many countries are there in UN today and compare against how many come for Olympics. Check how many sports they play and brag to your friends about your intelligence (which in this case is knowledge!)


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