Category: "Learning"
..and Another Quote
Our ignorance encompasses, at least, all the things we know we do not know (known unknowns); all the things we do not know we do not know (unknown unknowns); all the things we think we know but do not (error); all the things we do not know we know (tacit knowing); all taboos (forbidden knowledge); and all denial (things too painful to know, so we suppress them). Medical ignorance seems especially threatening to many of us. If, however, we are to cope with our vast ignorance of the human body, its powers and processes, we must learn to acknowledge our nescience and optimize it. To do so, we need to rethink the nature and interrelations between knowledge and ignorance. We need to expand our capacities for self-learning and refine abilities to map our complex experience.
Categories: Philosophical, Learning, Worldview, ----------
Another Quotation Of Ignorance
In order to arrive at what you do not know
You must go by a way which is the way of ignorance
from East Coker (The Four Quartets) Thomas Stearns Eliot
Still Hungry!!
The title of this blog "Feeding My Ignorance" is derived from the Terry Pratchett quote that appears at the top of the Wiki page. This allied to the Einstein quote on the Home page illustrates that my take on ignorance is not a negative one - and that the fact that my 'perceived' ignorance is increasing is actually a very positive (if paradoxical) sign of increased knowledge.
Categories: Welcome, Philosophical, Knowledge Management, Learning, Worldview, Books, ----------
Challenging The Status Quo
Whenever an innovation occurs there are a couple of things that the innovating authority needs to do in order to ensure adoption. First there needs to be some "market" for the innovation - i.e. a need of some sort - and secondly they need to put forward a convincing case to show that the innovation meets the need.
Categories: News, Systems Thinking, Learning, Worldview, ----------
Words of the Day
It struck me as quite strange today that there were two words that sprang into my vocabulary out of, seemingly, nowhere that turned out to be much more 'apt' than anything that I could have used to replace them. What was even stranger was that these words were both adjectives, both used to describe "me" and almost entirely opposite in meaning!
Categories: Philosophical, Learning, Worldview, ----------
A Partial Summary
Although the entries in this blog are sporadic and are not following any particular pattern there are a few themes that run through them and which recur in different posts. I'm just thinking that it might be as well to provide a bit of a summary and a few links to enable easier browsing between related posts.
Categories: Welcome, Philosophical, Systems Thinking, Friends, Complexity, Learning, Cognition, Worldview, ----------
Listen To Me!
One of the great benefits of the so-called social networks online is that you become exposed to a vast variety of perspectives - different points of view that were we to limit ourselves to our 'normal' circles would never get close to penetrating our hectic schedules and overworked brains.
Categories: Philosophical, Learning, Cognition, Worldview, ----------
An Unlikely Chain of Events
There are a lot of different things that trigger the thoughts that end up expressed here in the blog. This particular post was inspired by a post on LinkedIn - I responded and then felt that it was appropriate to elaborate just a little here.
Categories: Philosophical, Systems Thinking, Learning, Worldview, ----------
What Good is That?
This is a 'first' in my blogs - I am starting to write this without knowing where it is going to end up! The trigger was the thought that I enjoy learning - I will 'devour' new information - I often follow trails through the world wide web and find myself at places that I didn't envisage when I started on the journey.
Categories: Philosophical, Learning, Cognition, Worldview, ----------
Divided by a Common Language
There is some doubt over the attribution of this quote, however there is absolutely no doubt in my mind of its truth - and not just between nations as originally suggested but between all sorts of groups who have developed their own 'local' language variants.
