“If I have seen further than others it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants”.
-Sir Isaac Newton.
Most of what we call problems or challenges are simply ignorance on display. We pay every day for our ignorance. Do you know that you pay the doctor, the mechanic, the plumber, the electrican the plumber, the carpenter, the accountant and a host of other services simply for your ignorance. According to WILL ROGERS, “everybody is ignorant only on different subjects”.
Ignorance is expensive, because you can not do everything .It is expensive and time wasting to be your own architect, engineers, gardner, cleaner, barbar, driver, messenger, accountant, clerk, lawyer and lots more. You can’t know everything. If you try that, the best you can be is an encyclopedia. But you can improve on your area of expertise by developing more skills.
Through this people will gladly pay you for their ignorance. What you know is what gives you power. That’s why the mechanic can hold you hostage and the electrician can imprison you. What you know is what gives you respect, value, worth and confidence. Poverty and misery are sure companions of a man who refuses to acquire knowledge. Ignorance is displaced through the acquisition of the right information .
The character of all wise men is their ability to learn. “A wise man will hear and shall increase learning” The destiny of those who are deficient in knowledge is shame, embarrassment and foolishness. Fools are never celebrated. You can not have the better life without becoming a better person. Go for knowledge. “my people are destroyed for lack of knowledge”. There is no substitute to the acquisition of knowledge.
What you do not know can kill and annihilate you. Ignorance is not necessarily lack of information but a result of misinformation all around you. Information that can make you a better professional, a person of character, a person of worth. Information that can make you whole spirit, soul and body.
Increasing your knowledge in the right direction will make you a wise person and help you make better decision, learning to better results and accomplishment.
“There is only one good that is knowledge, and one evil that is ignorance” :- Socrates.
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