We all agree to the old adage that “knowledge is power.”
Having a good Know-how to something will earn you good job and or money, fame, power, position, name it... Knowledge becomes a commodity, an important resource for an individual or organization to gain wealth.
Speaking of Know-how we are schooled to gain it. We went to school to get our education, acquire knowledge and learn certain skills. Schools taught us the methodologies, the strategies, the techniques so that we will be “equipped” so to speak, for the future.
We went to school to get a degree to know a job.
Likewise, nowadays, with the advent of technologies, information becomes easily acquired so we are updated on almost everything including technology and innovation.
Learning becomes free and accessible to all. In fact, if you want to learn something -- just google it and lo and behold, all the resources now indeed within the tips of our fingers.
However, whether you are educated, a degree title holder or a dropped out, your knowledge alone will not guarantee you success.
There are many graduates out there, struggling to get a job or even worse ended up unemployed for several years already.
There are also people who are dropped out, has no degree, yet more successful and making fortune doing the little know-how they gained.
What would be the difference?
It’s not what you know that matters but what you do with what you know
Know-how or knowledge is not a means by itself. It is a lot more than that.
Basically, every day we learned something, we acquire new knowledge, we discover new ideas, but the fact is, "knowing is one thing and doing it is another."
The knowledge we gained will only worth much unless we act on it.
To simplify the point, I know some friends who were graduated from medical schools -- obviously educated and learned about health and health hazards. Yet still they smoke.
You and me know about junk foods, yet we eat it anyways.
You and me know about the importance to save money for our future, yet we squander still.
You and me know about the importance of exercising and a lack of it may harm our body, yet still we don't.
In other words, there is no amount of knowledge that will able to change us or bring benefit to us unless we apply it into action.
This article is originally posted at WorldNgayon.com