The journey up the knowledge hill from the base of the land of ignorance looks like this -
I know little
I know what I know (1 in 5)
I know what I know and can talk about it in detail, with authority (1 in 10)
I know what I do not know (1 in 100)
I know where to find what I do not know and am inclined to know it (1 in 200)
I know where to find what I do not know and have read/tried to learn it (1 in 400)
I have understood what I tried to learn (1 in 1000)
I can apply what I have learned in most situations that warrant it (1 in 10000)
OK. The numbers may vary but the message does not get diluted. This is reality. The lower rungs of the hill are all about awareness and the slope is gentle. Awareness is the most rudimentary step in the pursuit of knowledge. And all one needs to climb the knowledge hill is to think and act. Plain and simple. But it takes commitment and effort.
Are there many such hills? Of course, for every sphere or field of knowledge, there exists a hill. Do we have successful folks, rich folks, knowledgeable folks, smart folks at all levels of this hill? Yes, we do. That is where the theory of relativity comes in. To every person at every level of the hill, except the base of ‘I know little’, there are a bunch of folks more knowledgeable and a bunch of folks less knowledgeable than them. What you do with them determines all the other attributes like success, richness, smartness et al that we briefly mentioned. You could exploit the lack of knowledge of the lower rung(s) to achieve some of these. You could learn from the rung(s) above to fill the knowledge gap and climb the hill. You could monetize your knowledge. You could socialize it. Whatever you do, it would be by choice as you go up the hill.
What do not exist at the bottom of the hill are choices. What does exist, even there, is opportunity.
All you need is to reach out to the folks just above! And if they aren’t helping, you know what they are in it for!!
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