I missed this post, so I will call myself out on it again. This is something I wrote back in December 2018.

As I’ve been getting older and, theoretically, accumulating knowledge (I dont think this always equates to getting smarter, so I will omit), I realized that theres a clear distinction between accumulating knowledge and learning. You could probably know everything about a manual for a piece of electronic equipment, say, a microphone. You can understand why the metal ring wraps the meshed sphere of the mic, maybe. Even if you knew everything about the wattage, the compatibility, its proprietary wiring, yet you can still do absolutely nothing with that knowledge. Sun Tzu, writes that a man who never stops learning is actually a fool. A man (or woman) that understands to stop and apply this knowledge, is a human capable of progress and thus moving forward.

Yet I realize also that so many of these days, we sort of just go on with our days, accumulating as much stuff as we can. Now I’m a hypocrite if I say that I’m not one of those, I’m definitely a sucker for knowledge, and I consume content like nobody else. However, it really does bug me when people are asking for more, whether thats, more space, more content, more more more more more. While its not a bad thing, I think its detrimental when you never pause to ask why? Why does it or you, need more? If you gave yourself a moment to pause and think for a hot second, you might find out that more just might not be necessary. I think the most important question is why, because it’ll make you challenge your intuitive beliefs for a split second. Its good to keep yourself in check that way.

I’ve been listening to a ton of people whom I respect the last few days, and some of them have echoed beliefs or ideas about the world that I’ve innately held for a long time, such as -. It made me think, its almost as if these thoughts had just been circling around in my brain for years on end, but was only spoken in the language or voice that made sense to me. I didn’t think it did to others. But what I found out is that all those thoughts exist, until you or somebody else helps you verbalize it or say it out loud. There are so many thoughts that I have trouble verbalizing, not being able to communicate, but I realized that lately I’ve had a ton of these moments when that thought finally comes to fruition, either to experience of something I heard.

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