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DEAD KNOWLEDGE - Kryll

DEAD KNOWLEDGE - Kryll

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Dead Knowledge

Recently a friend of mine asked me how many books I have read in my entire life. When I began to think of the number, and how unimpressive it was, I decided to do some research.

Winston Churchill tallied around 5000 books in his lifetime. William Gladstone (a British Liberal politician) claimed that the average person is capable of reading 22000 books in their lifetime.

This is typical of the consumeristic character of the Western world; to banish knowledge to a mere number, and it is with this sort of logic that I have a bone to pick.

Have you ever thought about how knowledge cannot be counted? It cannot be said that I am smarter than Jimmy simply because Jimmy has 5 knowledge and I have a whopping 8. Knowledge is much more profound than that, and there is a very interesting concept I would like to introduce you to that will highlight the true anatomy of knowledge.

The concept that I would like to introduce you to is that of dead knowledge. This may sound a bit too sci-fi for people to bother about, but the truth is that most of all the knowledge that floats about in our brains is dead knowledge.

Basically put, dead knowledge is knowledge that is not applied. It is knowledge that exists for the sake of existing. Now, while it may not be bad for us, it also does not make any significant impact in our lives; except for maybe allowing us to be the smart-ass at a general knowledge pop-quiz (if those even exist anymore).

The unsung hero of our time, and a concept we desperately need to apply more viciously to our lives is one that stands in contradistinction to dead knowledge; the unsurprisingly titled, living knowledge.

Now, while reading 22 000 books does sound flattering (especially for the resultant superhuman it would create), I stand against this seemingly flattering notion. In my opinion, a person does not need to read 22 000 books in order to be great.

The person that decides to read even a mere ten books, books that are actually aligned in the direction they wish to fly, books that are religiously applied to their daily life, this would be the person most vulnerable to greatness. This would be the person who will have accomplished more than someone who has 22 000 dead books on the dusty shelf of their mind.

When you begin to think about it, even if you have read tons of books, what are those thousands of pages worth if not applied? They turn out to be nothing more than drops of knowledge in a vast and dead sea. Dead knowledge.

So my message to you today, for your lives and especially the rest of this blog is one that is seemingly simple, yet extremely powerful; how about we bring our knowledge to life?

Nevern Subermoney