The brain is acting upon the stimulants of coffee and 9 hours in front of an excel spreadsheet, so excuse what may be banal. Re-opening last semester’s tax notes for insight on a reducing the effective tax rate based on NOL usage, and the alarm clock of self-actualization goes off.
Knowledge vs. Education vs. Wisdom
knowledge, the act of learning, absorbing information, passive, only kept fresh by rigor, study and the spark to know more.
followed by education, the digestion of said data, slightly less reactionary than the soak of the above. Anyone can learn, but to really release those neural synapses to shore up the mind’s network, future application of past information must occur. I am in here.
wisdom – leveraging education to create new visions or destroy old relics, and catalyze this cycle all over again.
Tags: creativity
Education seems less to me than the digestion of knowledge that the gorging upon it, or the process of both gorging and digesting it, though I think it digests like the dudes in Return of the Jedi who decompose in the stomach for over 200 years. Did you know that when I first (and second, and tenth) saw the movie I thought the pit they were throwing everyone into was somehow Jabba’s stomach, and that’s why he was laughing — he was half-burping? I swear I’m not making this up and while it seems ridiculous, remember that we’re talking about a movie where a giant slug keeps Carrie Fisher on a leash and people fight with light.
I was going to f with your wisdom definition before I realized it’s awesome.