One of the reasons why people choose to acquire knowledge is because it is important to them.  Teaching people knowledge will also make sense only when it is important. When you want to teach a child something, understand that it will only make sense when it is important.

People need to learn more about the importance of knowledge and its application rather than focusing on only gaining more knowledge. As you embark on a path of seeking more knowledge, ask yourself what you will do with the knowledge.

What is the essence of learning things you cannot use to make life better?

Knowledge would be useless if people only knew things they cannot make use of. When seeking new knowledge always focus on learning what you can use at the time. The economy of learning posits that overtraining is an enemy of progress and as much as people learn they still have to learn things as they experience the world.

The economy of learning calls for you to learn only what you need to use at the movement and consider learning a continuous thing in life. You will keep learning things, unlearning others and learning as they are useful to your development.

Knowledge doesn’t equal intelligence. Knowledge is what you know while intelligence is your ability to use what you know. With intelligence, you manipulate what you already know to come up with new ideas and actions.

Intelligence and knowledge also determine whether you can influence other people or not.  You should know yourself. Consider all the knowledge you have and your capacity to answer hard questions. If you cannot answer the most difficult questions then you should not try to influence others.

The path to achieving success in life and true greatness is understanding the world. However, in the pursuit of knowledge, it is challenging to understand the world.

When you don’t know how complex the world is you will have simple solutions for complex problems and will discover the hard way how your answers were not effective.

The uncanny valley of true knowledge implies that when you understand how complex the world is you become afraid of it since you know you don’t understand it well enough even though you may be good enough to navigate the world.