Knowledge Only Exists in the Mind | Conversational Leadership
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Knowledge Only Exists in the Mind | Conversational Leadership
Information becomes knowledge—personal, embodied, verified—only when we put it to use.
In the end, however, all you have is awareness, the quality of knowing that is present in every moment of experience — indefinable, indescribable, non-conceptual knowing.
We need to rely more and more on our own immediate, direct knowledge. However, even true knowledge based on our own experience is composed of concepts, labels, ideas, images, and so on. So it exists only as a memory.
Information becomes knowledge—personal, embodied, verified—only when we put it to use. You gain confidence in what you know only when you know that it works. Until you do, it’s just a theory.
The world of the left hemisphere, dependent on denotative language and abstraction, yields clarity and power to manipulate things that are known, fixed, static, isolated, decontextualised, explicit, disembodied, general in nature, but ultimately lifeless. The right hemisphere, by contrast, yields a world of individual, changing, evolving, interconn
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