If You Don’t Understand Something, Do Not Ignore It

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‘The greatest forces lie in the region of the uncomprehend.’- George MacDonald

The world is bigger than us. The world is not what you can explore in a day, not even in your lifetime.

So if you are really interested in the world around you, if you want to know more than your own world, if you want to know more than yourself, you must face your own understanding.

If something is new to you, it is an opportunity to get into a different world. Do not waste it!

When you meet other people, especially people who are different from you, who are not from your country, who don’t speak your language, who are struggling to fit into your society, it is an opportunity to get to know them.

It is an opportunity to add value to your own life. It is a great way to check your own past assumptions. And it is a great way to question what you think you already know, especially about other people.

Don’t think you know it all. You don’t know it all. No one knows it all. Why is that? Because the world is bigger than you. It is a global village.

You will learn a lot from other people if you are open to learning.

Remember, learning starts with you. You learn about something when you are really interested in knowing about it. When you are intrested in other people, they will be interested in you.

If you don’t know something, do not just throw it under the rug. Don’t put it aside. Learn more about it. Ask ‘why’ questions.

When it comes to learning, everything is important. When it comes to exploring the world around you, nothing is a waste.

Remember, nothing is a waste if you know what to do with it. If you want to do more, you must understand more. To grow more, you must know more; you must understand more.

If not, you are not going to grow bigger than your own self-created world.

4 Things All Wise People Know

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A wise person knows the proper aims of the activity she is engaged in. She wants to do the right things to achieve these aims- wants to meet the needs of the people she is serving.’- Barry Schwartz and Kenneth Sharpe

A wise person knows how to improvise, balancing conflicting aims and interpreting rules and principles in light of the particularities of each context.’- Barry Schwartz and Kenneth Sharpe

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A wise person is perceptive, knows how to read a social context, and knows how to move beyond the black- and-white of rules and see the gray in a situation.’- Barry Schwartz and Kenneth Sharpe

‘A wise person knows how to make emotions an ally of reason, to rely on emotion to signal what a situation calls for, and to inform judgment without distorting it. He can feel, intuit, or ‘just know’ what the right thing to do is, enabling him to act quickly when timing matters. His emotions and intuitions are well educated.’- Barry Schwartz and Kenneth Sharpe