Knowledge is Power

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Thursday, June 9, 2016

You’ve probably heard the old quote, “Knowledge is Power,” That’s truer than you can ever imagine. Few people understand how important knowledge can be. Knowledge is what allows us to drive cars instead of ride horses, it is what helps us survive far longer than we should, and knowledge is even what prevents us from making the same mistakes we made in the past.

Sometimes we have problems with knowledge because we have difficulties obtaining it. Being in school, gaining knowledge is mandatory, and people can respond negatively to being forced to learn, but the knowledge you gain in that class can actually help you succeed further down the line. It sounds strange, but it’s possible that you can forget how to learn. The Udemy course Learning to Learn helps you improve your studying abilities and gain knowledge effectively.

Learning Better

Learning is a concept that isn’t limited to books or classes. You can literally learn something new every day, and you probably do without realizing it. You may learn something about a friend of yours, about a complete stranger, maybe even about yourself that you didn’t know before. Learning better isn’t about helping you get good grades, but it is about helping you understand and acknowledge the knowledge you gain on a regular basis. There’s a great article on learning to learn better that you should read in order to get advice on improving your learning skills.

Setting Goals As You Learn

One problem you may face is trying to motivate yourself when it comes to obtaining knowledge. Sometimes people find themselves completely stumped on what they should learn and why. Finding important goals to set and then reach for learning is a great first step in gaining more knowledge.

Check out the Udemy course Goals of Learning. It teaches you about setting up goals and it serves as a fantastic guide to help with learning and educating yourself more.

Learn Complex Things Faster 

The more knowledge you have, the easier you will be able to learn other things. A simple concept that took you forever to learn may deter you from pursuing the subject further, but once you get the fundamentals of a concept down, you can easily learn the more difficult work.

For example, think about math. You start off doing math with addition. Addition may have been a problem for you at the beginning, but you eventually understand it. You then learn a new concept, multiplication. Multiplication is far more advanced than addition, but you can pick it up with a great deal of ease because you understand its similarities to addition. Now you are learning exponents, and it’s even easier than multiplication. Exponents are nothing but multiplication, which is nothing but addition.

By the time you’re done with mathematics, you will realize that the most difficult concepts you initially had problems with have made the newer, even more difficult concepts, easier to understand.

Taking advantage of your knowledge, using it, and managing it properly is ideal if you truly want to make full use of your intellect. The course Knowledge Management on Udemy is a resource you have to try if you want to learn more about dealing with knowledge.

Knowledge Helps You Solve Problems 

In life, you will constantly face problems every day, sometimes problems that you can’t possibly seem to overcome. With knowledge, you can improve your abilities of thinking critically. The problems you face in class, you may face in real life.

A lot of times people question when they will ever use something they learned in class in life, but the answer to that question is every day. This isn’t just math, but reading and history as well. Not only does this knowledge help you deal with specific problems, but being put into situations where you have to think critically gives you experience.

Now you know how to react to a problem that requires intellectual fortitude. You can deal with something and acknowledge when something is beyond you mentally. Most importantly though is that you can gain more knowledge to overcome your problems.

Understanding Yourself

Knowledge can actually make you happy, in that you can start to really think about and understand yourself. What makes you happy, what do you enjoy exploring and learning about? Knowledge helps you in a variety of ways, but the best way is that it helps you understand who you really are.

Try the Udemy course Take Inventory of Your Self. It teaches you how to use your intelligence to understand yourself better.

Source: https://blog.udemy.com/importance-of-knowledge

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