Create Success Newsletter!
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Create Success Newsletter
Volume 4, Issue 7 - August 2007
Powerful Tips to Grow Your Business and Your Life
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In this issue ---
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In this issue ---
1. Lead Article "Knowledge and Wisdom"
2. Recommended Resources
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Lead Article
Knowledge and Wisdom
"The only thing that interferes with my learning
is my education."
- - Albert Einstein
"What we don't know is not the problem. It's what we do know that's not so."
- - Mark Twain
What you know can be either a blessing or a curse,
depending on whether you're aware of the pitfalls of
knowledge that I want to talk about today. And since
I love stories, I'm going to use a few.
Let's start with ulcers, stomach ulcers. Everybody
knows that ulcers are caused by stress and too much
acid in the stomach, right? Then why did some patients
get better when they took an antibiotic, a couple of
young Australian doctors wondered. This is what science
calls an anomaly - an unusual and unexplained
occurance.
Most scientists (and other people) ignore
anomalies, but these two doctors wondered if bacteria
could be involved in ulcers. All their training said that
bacteria couldn't live in the stomach acid, and when
they publically suggested otherwise, they were ridiculed
by the medical community. But they persisted.
And they had the last laugh, when in 2005 Drs Barry
Marshall and Robin Warren received the Nobel Prize
in medicine for their discovery. They can chalk this prize
up to the fact they were willing to ask one question of
themselves - "What if what I know is wrong?"
Science is full of anomalies. A famous experiment with
light in the late 1800's showed that the speed measured
seemed to be the same whether you measured it with
the rotation of the earth, or against it. That was an anomaly.
Einstein said, "What if what I know about time is wrong?"
and the theory of relativity was born.
Some anomalies remain swept under the rug. A woman
awakens from a major operation and repeats the
conversation that the surgeons were having while they
worked on her. Her body and mind were completely
shut down - she was on a heart/lung machine and her
brain was flatlined. She couldn't have heard the
conversation. Everybody knows that consciousness
is just a brain function of neurons firing, right?
But "what if what we know is wrong?"
Why do we have so much trouble asking "what if I'm
wrong?" It's because we have an emotional investment
in being right. Emotional, not rational! In fact, some
recent neuroscience research showed that when
subjects were asked to evaluate 2 speakers, one of
whom they agreed with and one they did not, the
rational areas of the brain did not show any activity
at all, just the emotional parts.
This characteristic of ours will work very hard to keep
us from considering new ideas, and the more those
new ideas conflict with our existing beliefs, the more
our emotions will fight to keep us emotional, not
rational. This keeps us ignorant.
That's why most of us (and I am the poster child for this)
only make big life changes in times of personal crisis.
It takes a crisis to make us teachable! Our old beliefs
have to be destroyed by a giant drama before we're
willing to consider a new idea. Good grief!
The writer Ken Wilbur has been able to make very
powerful breakthroughs with his Integral philosophy
tying together hundreds of different points of view
because he declared "Everybody's right!" By taking
the attitude that everybody's right about something
some of the time, he could learn from them.
The most valuable discoveries in our lives often come
when we are willing to ask ourselves the question,
"what if I'm wrong about that?" Don't let your education
get in the way of your learning, as Einstein said. We
call that openmindedness, that willingness to learn,
wisdom. Wisdom says, "I don't know, tell me more."
Charles Fillmore, one of the co-founders of the great
Unity movement was once accosted by a fellow who
asked him to explain why in an early book he had said
one thing and in a later book something just the opposite.
Fillmore shrugged and said, "I changed my mind."
That's wisdom.
Here's an exercise - write down a list of 4 or 5 things
that you absolutely know you're right about! You can
start with politics and religion, and go from there. What
was the last big disagreement you had with someone?
Then ask the question "what if I'm wrong?" and try your
very best to be rational, if you can.
The road from ignorance to wisdom passes through
humility.
Here's to wisdom,
Wes
Comments or questions? Drop me a line using the
Contact form
on my web site.
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**Disclaimer - Results not typical.
Your results are the product of your own efforts and
we do not promise any particular outcome for you if
you follow our advice or take one of our seminars.
I hope you already knew this.
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© 2007 Wes Hopper. All rights reserved.
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