I was watching a movie recently titled "The Forge," and in that movie, a man said, "It is good to learn from your mistake but it is better to learn from other people's mistakes."
After I finished watching that movie, that word struck me,
It is good to learn from your mistakes but it is better to learn from other people's mistakes.
You ask me, "Is knowledge at our fingertip a good thing or not?" or let me put it this way "Is easy access to knowledge a blessing?"
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In the olden days, what makes a person a genius is that he or she has little knowledge about everything. You ask them about science; they have an idea, you ask them about sport; they have something to say; you ask them about politics, and their profound knowledge will amaze you. The reason why many people feel left out back in the day is because they didn't have easy access to education or knowledge.
I heard the story of a man who went for an interview after studying all night and doing his research so he could be the head other interviewee. On the day of the interview, he saw a woman going into the interview room, and he said someone called her name. I memorized the name and searched for her on LinkedIn, got her profile, and from what she has on her profile, he was able to relate well with her and pass the interview.
Such information might be somewhere in the library, but if easy access to information is taken from him, then I doubt he would have been able to do some quick research on his own and come up with a good backup plan.
The easy access to information today makes us more knowledgeable than our predecessors.
I am currently taking a motion graphics course from home, where I am learning everything there is to know about the subject. If I had to navigate a time when acquiring knowledge required a greater effort, I would face a difficult choice: I would either have to give up my job to pursue more knowledge or stay in my job and forgo the knowledge I seek.
Are we any more intelligent or smarter than our predecessors, who had to travel miles to the library just to seek knowledge?
As the day goes by, we continue to see people who are breaking records in every facet of life because they work smarter and are more intelligent. If you agree that our predecessors are more intelligent than the current generation because they have to travel miles to the library to seek knowledge, then there shouldn't be technological advancement, medical breakthroughs, and so on.
People don't need to travel far to have access to people's research, learn from their mistakes, and make an improved version of what existed before. Because of this, we can see how education has been made easy, and even the old people can observe things that are going on in other parts of the world and even outside their field of study.
You study public administration, but you know some basic things about space. You are a genius because you have access to this knowledge.
Thanks for reading. My name remains Fashtioluwa. The favorite alien on Hive. Let's meet again and share our knowlegde. Adios.
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