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Knowledge Is Not Understanding - More to That
You might think a healthy information diet – especially one for a business leader or strategist – would have information at the bottom of the pyramid, but you’d be missing a crucial insight. Connection is how we process information.
When there’s a big event in the media, it’s our collective discussion of it that makes it make sense to us. If you wa... See more
When there’s a big event in the media, it’s our collective discussion of it that makes it make sense to us. If you wa... See more
Jean Louis • Information Nutrition
One must seek Knowledge, but be a little wary of finding it. Perhaps excessive, but one could say the idea of possessing knowledge represents a kind of complacency. This is what Socrates meant: Once you think you know, you stop looking. You cease your wonder.
Simon Sarris • Long Distance Thinking
The emphasis in all these cases is on knowledge being “actionable” because of the business context, and on knowledge being a refinement of information because that’s how we extracted value from data. That may be a useful way of thinking about the value of information, but it’s pretty far from what knowledge has been during its 2,500 year history. T
... See moreDavid Weinberger • The Problem with the Data-Information-Knowledge-Wisdom Hierarchy
These two realms of knowing—knowledge and self-knowledge—are not different varieties of the same stuff but are opposites. And they are bound by a delicate balance: the more our knowledge grows, the more our self-knowledge needs to grow. If that doesn’t happen—if the roots of our self-knowledge don’t deepen to support the growth of our knowledge—the
... See morePhilip Shepherd • Radical Wholeness: The Embodied Present and the Ordinary Grace of Being
When understanding is separated from reality, we lose our powers. Understanding must constantly be tested against reality and updated accordingly.
Rhiannon Beaubien • The Great Mental Models Volume 1: General Thinking Concepts
