The more you know the more you don’t know

The Blogger’s Thought

Knowledge and Ignorance grows together.

This blogger was shocked to hear this philosophy from a retiring Indian Professor who was about to leave to Hyderabad very soon.

So he has decided to dig further about the philosophy and found the following article “Circles of knowledge and boundary of Ignorance” by Jim Mc Gee, a Harvard Graduate Consultant.

This blogger has noticed that some of the very intelligent and knowledgeable people ended up their life doing silly things. Because the more they know the more they don’t know!

Sounds funny? Try to read Mc Gee’s postulation.

Sit Mone

Excerpt;

I started thinking about “boundaries of ignorance” and “circles of knowledge” while putting together a presentation on learning and knowledge management. I began with the simple notion of learning as expanding your circle of knowledge and quickly hit on the notion that expanding my circle of knowledge was simultaneously expanding the boundaries of my ignorance. The more things I learned, the more things I became aware of that I didn’t know.

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