So what's the difference between knowledge and wisdom
I would say that knowledge is something you learn and wisdom is something you learn then apply the
do and then see the results that come from it knowledge is learning a lot about business and
trying something out for a few months and then quitting wisdom is following things through to
your business succeeds or fails and really learning what works and what doesn't for you
knowledge is listening to the joe rogan show and thinking you know everything there is to
know about health wisdom is becoming a doctor practicing for 20 years and seeing what actually
comes from the result of that knowledge so that it can be better applied wisdom is a much deeper
understanding of how things actually work in real life when we're 20 we all have a lot of
knowledge and i had this conversation with someone recently and i don't mean any uh disrespect to
anyone who's 20 or younger for that matter but when i look back at the things i thought i knew
i'm i'm embarrassed i really am to look back at what you think makes sense because you read it
in a book but you don't really have any experience of how that functions in real life what actually
happens when you apply that knowledge what are human beings actually like now this video is
not supposed to be about the medical system or anything like that so don't worry this will be
the last example but i see this a lot with people talking about health and wellness as it relates to
covid let's say where they're saying you know what if everyone just took care of their immune system
that would be fine you know doctors just want to give people drugs and drugs and drugs right
and so that seemed like it made a lot of sense to me for a while when you just look at the surface
if you're someone who's really healthy like me if I'm start taking a vitamin i take it every
day I put it out by my breakfast and i'm going to take it i'm going to try to follow through on good
advice and if you watch this channel you're probably that way as well right so you think
well if people took care of their immune systems and their health and
blah blah blah you know doctors just want to give people drugs but i've sat down and spoken to some
really smart doctors and what they're going to tell you is i have 15 to 30 minutes with someone
maybe less to change their lives and if you think that in that time anyone is going to be able to
create serious habitual change you're absolutely crazy and the study that brought that home to me
i might butcher some of the details um it was in a book I read quite a while ago but essentially
when people are prescribed life-saving medication so i'm not talking about a little uh passive thing
like oh there's an ache in your leg this will help this is something like someone's had a
organ implant and they're taking anti-rejection medication or someone's had a heart attack and
they're taking medication after the heart attack to prevent another one the uh discipline rate of
people actually taking the medication as prescribed is something like 50 percent
think about that someone has almost died they've got to the point of needing an organ transplant or
had a heart attack and then they're given the medication that can keep them alive
and on average about 50 percent of people or 50 of cases it's followed through properly a
lot of people just don't take the medication a lot of people take every second dose and kind of
mess around with it in that way i mean think about that now we could say that while people who maybe
had those conditions there's a higher chance they didn't have a lot of discipline or something like
that maybe so maybe in the general population 70 of people would follow through but of course
who are doctors seen they're seeing the people who are having trouble following through right
so on the surface it's easy to look at the knowledge and say hey people uh you know if
you eat this way take these vitamins exercise this amount that's all you need why are pharmaceutical
companies handing out all these drugs why are doctors pushing drugs or surgery or that
that's the reality of the situation when you're working especially with a group of
people who maybe don't have the best discipline or follow-through which is probably all of us
if we're really being honest or at least the vast majority of people right so i want to bring this
home a little bit and relate a little bit more to enfps and infps with it as well is when i was
um not doing so well in business which was a decent amount of time for me in different ways
where maybe my business was affording my lifestyle but not nearly at the potential it could be
there were times where it was well under what I would like it to be in terms of my lifestyle and
one of the things I realized that really held me back is i was really focused on the knowledge part
and so if I had learned something I thought you know I knew that I know this already I know this
already so if someone was giving me advice or if I was going to take a course or read or some way try
to improve my business I would always be looking for something new I need new knowledge right and
so I'd be looking for this knowledge and ignoring really the wisdom ignoring the core things that I
needed to be doing and so I'd have this chip on my shoulder like yeah I already know this stuff
i already know stuff well maybe I knew that stuff but it hadn't turned into wisdom as evidence by
my bank balance right if you truly know something in terms of it becoming wisdom for you that means
you've actually practiced it through to the point of getting results right so it's like you could
go back to the health example too if someone's like yeah i know this stuff diet and exercise
okay yeah but if you can't walk up two flights of stairs then i don't know if you know know this
stuff right and so this is something that really held me back and i don't think i'm alone with this
where i because i love learning and love new knowledge I'd always be looking for
advanced techniques or new things or trying to figure out you know what's really holding me
back uh maybe I need to know this latest thing or that latest thing and it usually was not
that complicated it really for myself it came down to being consistent putting in the hours
obviously strategy plays a role but strategy plays a role more at the higher levels
you know if you're at the lower end of whatever it is a health challenge a business challenge a
relationship where it's just in the in the uh dirt it's not going well at all usually
it's the fundamentals spend quality time together eat some vegetables and walk places put in
a consistent eight hours a day into your business like these are the basics that are
usually what is required to get from the bottom level to sort of somewhere in the middle
at that point advanced strategies going um you know whatever it is right is what could be really
more important to you but when you're in that early stage or you're really really struggling
you don't need more knowledge you don't need more techniques or strategies what you really need
is someone to be frank with you and point out hey here are the basic things you need to be doing
until you learn this then none of this other stuff really matters that's not always the advice you're
going to get you will often be told no wait there's one more advanced thing you need to
learn if you just learn this thing it'll all come together and make sense right but i think that's
usually not true there's the old story of michael jordan shooting free throws right just going and
repeating repeating repeating to get good at this one thing very boring not exciting but repetition
leads to mastery and builds confidence in all areas of whatever it is you're doing I think why
this is particularly important for us nfps is I've heard a rumor that occasionally we don't follow
through on things to the very end we maybe start something and then quit it or change direction or
you know pivot if you will and one of the things that really robs us from is the wisdom when i had
a business failure I ran that baby into the ground I mean I went to the very end I was like I'm not
getting off the ship women and children are off men are off I'm still going to go down with this
ship and I am so grateful i did that because that gave me a ton more wisdom I would not have gotten
if I jumped ship six months or six months earlier and just kind of went with it it was by seeing
things through to the end by having that emotional impact that i feel i gained more wisdom in that
experience than probably anything else i have ever done but if we're starting something I've done
this a lot too don't feel like I finish everything or take everything to the end when when I've
started something and then you kind of get into it and you're more in the knowledge phase and then
you quit before you get any serious results good or bad you rob yourself of developing that wisdom
so I know it's not the most exciting concept but it's something we're thinking about and thinking
about the fundamentals with whatever it is in your life you're trying to change I know we love
novelty and newness and learning is amazing you know the experience of taking in new knowledge and
discovering new things but maybe it's good for us sometimes to separate the learning
from the doing in the important parts of our lives and I try to do this with my own business is focus
on the fundamentals more and more and then with learning maybe i'm reading a book on sociology or
history or something else I'm learning but i'm not always learning about business now because
I still have not used everything I have all the potential there with what I'm doing so why
be learning more and more and more and more new things until I've applied some of it and really
gotten the foundation down now if you're wondering how this applies to you or how to get a sense like
do I have more knowledge than wisdom is there's an area that you feel like you're already almost an
expert in or you have this advanced knowledge how do your results compare if your results are not
one of the top sort of five or ten percent then you're probably in the knowledge area where you're
learning a lot but how to actually apply that and implement it and make a difference in your life
is is lacking and that's something you're going to want to look at more how can you slow down a
bit on building the knowledge and actually focus on doing the fundamentals and building more wisdom
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