The Flaws Of Our Intelligence
The Surprising Question We Fail To Ask That Puts Us Behind
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The Flaws Of Our Intelligence
The Surprising Question We Fail To Ask That Puts Us Behind
Let me Ask You a Simple Question...
One which people Rarely...
If Ever...
Ask Themselves...
How Do You Know What You Know?
Think about it Closely...
How Did You Come to Know the Things that You Know?
All of Us have a Huge Amount of Knowledge Stored within Us...
Not all of it is "Useful" to Our Everyday Lives...
I Know that I have So Many Star Wars Facts that course through my Head...
But there is Something that is perhaps a Bit Scary if you Stop to Think About It...
We Know So Much...
But We So Often Do Not Know "How" We Know It.
Which is a Problem...
Mark Twain put it Brilliantly...
"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so."
Most of us have Huge Amounts of Information...
That We Know...
But for the Life of Us...
Would "Never" be able to Recall "Where" We Learned It...
Think about that...
You Have "No Clue" Where that Information Came From.
Not Really, Anyway.
Did you Learn it in a Textbook?
Who were the Authors of that Textbook?
Are they Reliable?
Where did They get Their Information?
Was it from History?
Whose History was it Learned From?
Was it from Scientific Research Papers?
If So, Who were the Authors of those Papers?
Were They Reliable?
Were the Studies Well Designed?
Were they Causative or Correlative?
What were the Study Sizes?
Were they Double-Blind Random Controlled Studies?
Were the Results Truly Meaningful or simply Statistically Significant?
Are You Certain about the Answers?
The Problem for Most People is that they have "No" Idea on Any of these Types of Questions.
This does Not Necessarily Mean You "Must" Go and Re-Look at Everything You have Ever Learned and Question It...
But the Reality is that if You have Not Deeply Done the Research and Study Yourself...
And Are Not Positive about the Sources of Your Information...
Then it may be Wise to Question if What You "Know" is Valuable...
Or Even True.
I have Asked this Question within the World of Scientific Research...
A Lot.
What I can Tell You, for a Fact, is that there is So Much Misinformation in the World of Scientific Research.
A Sizable Amount of it is Purposefully Designed to be that Way.
You can Ask Well-Intentioned, Good-Hearted Western Doctors How they Know what they Know...
Many will tell You Medical School of Course...
But if You Dig More Deeply...
You Discover that Many of them Have Not Done the Research into Many Topics Themselves...
They Learned it "Somewhere" along the Line...
But Wouldn't be able to Say for Certain Where...
Or From Whom...
Or What the Research Actually Looked Like...
They "Know"...
But Not Really.
They just Know what they have Been Taught...
And Sadly, what they have been Taught May Not be as Accurate as they Believe.
For instance, I was listening to a Lecture today about Vitamin A...
A Vitamin that We have "Known" about for around 100 Years...
Which we "Understand" the Importance of...
And the Lecturer was Discussing how "Most" Doctors, including both those who are Allopathically Trained "And" those whoare Functionally Trained...
Have No Idea How Important Vitamin A is in Helping People Recover from Anemia.
Now, I Knew, because I've done a lot of Research on Whole Food Vitamin A...
But Most People Do Not.
And even though I Knew Everything that was being Discussed in the Lecture...
And More...
I Still think that We have Very Little Knowledge as a Society about the Full Importance of Vitamin A...
A Vitamin that We've "Known" about for around 100 Years.
If We Know So Little about this One Vitamin...
How Little Do We Know about All of the Other Nutrients?
Especially since Research has really only Tracked 150 Nutrients...
Of the 26,625 that are Known...
Which means that Our Research Covers "Less" than 1% of What Exists...
And Clearly that Research on what We "Do" Know is Significantly Less than What is Comprehensive.
We, as Humans, are So Intelligent...
But Our Intelligence is So Flawed and Far from Ideal...
In More Ways than We Realize.
Not to Mention that Much of What We "Know"...
Has come from Biased Perspectives...
People with Specific Motives...
Business Models that Do Not always Benefit Us as Humans...
Outdated Ideas that have Hidden in Plain Sight Unquestioned...
And So Much More.
How Do You Know What You Know?
Most People Never Question What they Know.
They Simply Accept it as Truth.
But Anything Unquestioned is Not Really "Ours"...
It is Something that has been Given to Us...
Implanted...
Perhaps with Good Intentions...
Perhaps Not...
But Not "Ours".
If we Want Our Knowledge to "Truly" Belong to Us...
Then We "Must" Question It.
We "Must" Ask Whether What We "Know" is Something We "Actually" Know...
Or Whether...
Far More Likely...
It was Never Really Ours...
And We have Simply been Given It...
And Maintained It...
For Whatever Reasons that We Have.
If Our Goal is to Improve the World...
To Help More People...
To Create Change...
We Must Question What We Know...
Some of What We Know May be True...
But Far More Often Our Understanding will be Significantly Flawed...
At No Fault to Ourselves.
They are Just Consequences of "How" We have Received Knowledge in the Past.
But, if it "Is" Flawed...
But We Do Not Know Why...
Or How...
Then We are in Danger of Repeating Mistakes Over and Over Again...
Unintentionally...
Without Ill Will...
Simply Consequences of Not Questioning What We Know...
But Mistakes Nevertheless.
It takes an Incredibly Courageous Person to Question Everything They Know...
But it is Also the Place where a Sage is Born.
It is Time to Question What We Know...
And to Unleash Our True Intelligence in the Process.
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