We all are proud of what we have
learnt. We always think I know these things better than my friends, better than
my colleague, better than my neighbour etc. But the fact is your known
knowledge also day by day keeps on updating. This world is changing day by day
then what about your knowledge, it took rest in your hidden secret locker room
of mind. Knowledge is not constant friends and it is like flow of water. We can
see water flow in ponds and that pond water flows to river and that river water
flows to ocean. Simply say flowing water is useful to us for our life. Rest
water is a place for mosquitoes to live and cause dangerous diseases. Same way
our knowledge must be in flow. Discuss what you know with your friends. If you
know more than them, then teach them by doing this your knowledge improves and
remains in your mind long time. It improves your memory. If your friends knows
more than you then learn from them. Always remember a good listener is good
speaker. Ask simple to simple things also don’t feel humiliation. In this way
your knowledge goes in positive direction like flow of water, yes or no
friends.
I always remember my favourite
professor. He used say to us “Take a 200 pages note book and write all things
you know. That means it includes what you know from your birth to till now. It
may be academic or personal learning or lessons you learnt from your life”.
Trust me friends I started
writing from alphabets, numbers and it finally reached up to Kirchhoff law’s,
Ohm’s law and Newton’s law’s. What I noticed am I only able to write 39 pages
of 200 pages book. I tried to remember only few things of my learning. Then I
realized that my knowledge was like rest water. This is simply waste of time.
Always ask yourself three
questions,
Why I am doing this? Is it
practically applicable to us? What is the outcome?
If your answer satisfies these
questions then only move on.
According to me there are two
types of people exist,
Type
one:
Some people know 100% of knowledge and they fail to express it or convey it to
people.
Type
two:
Some people know 10% of knowledge and they work 90% of their energy to convey
this knowledge to others.
So, stop gaining knowledge, stop
reading books and start applying it. Because all great leaders you may check in
history, they always followed type two. Don’t hesitate to share your ideas.
“Learning
gives creativity, Creativity leads to thinking, Thinking provides knowledge and
Knowledge makes you great”
- A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
