The Disconnect
"I know that I should eat healthy and I don't. I know that I should spend time with my kids and I don't. I know that money, yes, will not make me happy and I am still keep trying to make money. It is an amazing thing about humans that we have these mistakes that we make all the time and it is not lack of information." Michael Nortonon Harvard professor
I believe that I know a lot on many topics. Man I can reach into my brain and extract information on what I should be doing. But as the quote teaches we know what we should do but we still do not.
The key word is information. He says that we have a lot of information. What that means to me its that we had a lot of data we were exposed to and we converted that data into information. So where do we fail?
In previous posts I talked about the idea of going from data to information to knowledge to wisdom. As we know, just by having information does not guarantee that we will do what we have information on. We are only half way on our journey towards wisdom.
Notice that the quote also uses the word know repeatedly. This implies the presence of knowledge. So that will place us three quarters of the way on our path to wisdom.
The failure then is going from knowing to wisdom. I believe that knowledge is the how and the wisdom is the why. If the why we do something is not greater than the how then the gap exists and we are more likely to fail.
Today's question is:
"How do you make your why greater than your how?"
"I know that I should eat healthy and I don't. I know that I should spend time with my kids and I don't. I know that money, yes, will not make me happy and I am still keep trying to make money. It is an amazing thing about humans that we have these mistakes that we make all the time and it is not lack of information." Michael Nortonon Harvard professor
I believe that I know a lot on many topics. Man I can reach into my brain and extract information on what I should be doing. But as the quote teaches we know what we should do but we still do not.
The key word is information. He says that we have a lot of information. What that means to me its that we had a lot of data we were exposed to and we converted that data into information. So where do we fail?
In previous posts I talked about the idea of going from data to information to knowledge to wisdom. As we know, just by having information does not guarantee that we will do what we have information on. We are only half way on our journey towards wisdom.
Notice that the quote also uses the word know repeatedly. This implies the presence of knowledge. So that will place us three quarters of the way on our path to wisdom.
The failure then is going from knowing to wisdom. I believe that knowledge is the how and the wisdom is the why. If the why we do something is not greater than the how then the gap exists and we are more likely to fail.
Today's question is:
"How do you make your why greater than your how?"
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