Just like Gravity, we, as humans, forget things that are so true and real. Gravity is over understood but it's not the only thing we are so used to being around. Have you ever wondered where the origins of our way of socializing began? How was it that we created words, sounds, and our overall language that we know today? During a reading of Language In Thought and Action by S.I Hayakawa, I was introduced the idea our society is always receiving knowledge without asking something in return from each individual in it. In simpler words, we receive but never have to give. At first, I was little confused. It's not like the world has given me a box wrapped in wrapping paper. So, it took a little brain power for me to understand what this meant. The meaning was we have all this knowledge available that you as an individual never contributed to.
MIND BLOWN.
I have never thought about this idea this way (but in a way I kind of knew this already) and now that it was brought to my attention the question is no longer:
What do humans get for nothing?
but,
What don't human get for nothing?
Seems like everything has been already discovered for you to only look for it. Examples? The knowledge around us.
Schools offer a lot of knowledge from math equations, like how to handle your money, to how to properly write a sentence, to achieved a job in life, but if you think about who was it that found this out? Someone, somewhere, and YOU did not help them in anyway yet you know about their discoveries. It's kind of humbling to know we have all these sources for absolutely nothing in return. In the Medical Fields, all of this great medicines that cure deadly diseases are available; in the field of Construction, ways to make a building sturdy and safe from enviromental conditions; in the Technological Field, how computers are built and help us handle our business everyday with the help of internet; this are all knowledge most of us never lifted a finger to achieve. Two words can summarize today's lesson...
MIND BLOWN.
Jose.
MIND BLOWN.
I have never thought about this idea this way (but in a way I kind of knew this already) and now that it was brought to my attention the question is no longer:
What do humans get for nothing?
but,
What don't human get for nothing?
Seems like everything has been already discovered for you to only look for it. Examples? The knowledge around us.
Schools offer a lot of knowledge from math equations, like how to handle your money, to how to properly write a sentence, to achieved a job in life, but if you think about who was it that found this out? Someone, somewhere, and YOU did not help them in anyway yet you know about their discoveries. It's kind of humbling to know we have all these sources for absolutely nothing in return. In the Medical Fields, all of this great medicines that cure deadly diseases are available; in the field of Construction, ways to make a building sturdy and safe from enviromental conditions; in the Technological Field, how computers are built and help us handle our business everyday with the help of internet; this are all knowledge most of us never lifted a finger to achieve. Two words can summarize today's lesson...
MIND BLOWN.
Jose.
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