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Gunther Sonnenfeld: "The realities of knowledge acquisition, distribution and retention are very different in a world in which the past, present and future are constantly being rewritten. Look no further than the Internet and the social web for overwhelming evidence of the shifts in how we acquire, distribute and retain information, or what we construe as knowledge."
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"What if we could all accept the precept that what we actually know is dwarfed by what we don’t know, and that’s actually a good thing?
To build from the example of an Internet economy, we are conductors of information that shifts the idea of control away from what’s ‘ownable’ and towards a dynamic of shared distribution and responsibility. To take it further, the idea isn’t necessarily to stake claim to a domain, but to unpack it such that the next best inferences and outcomes can occur.
As the graphic above implies, there are some interesting alignments — human attributes, to be more specific — with all that we don’t know.
While what you know is considered knowledge, what you don’t know is or can be a heightened form of awareness. It’s analogous to knowing what not to do. It’s the kind of foundational learning that enables us to make better choices and create better options for ourselves.
What you think you know or what you might know, take on forms of reason, imagination, and sometimes, outright delusion. In the same way we might intuit a scenario or imagine an outcome, we can also delude ourselves into thinking that a present reality doesn’t exist (such as a failing business). Whether it does or doesn’t is also tied to the awareness of why what we might know actually matters.
What you want to know and what you don’t know that you don’t know (the unknown unknowns) take on forms of curiosity and discovery. Wanting, doing and seeing or understanding become critical factors in shaping a new reality around what we don’t know. As such, we become wiser as we learn about what we didn’t know before, or what we still might not know going forward.
Seem obvious? It probably isn’t, considering how often we repeat the same mistakes based on what we think we know."
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Experience The Power of Not Knowing
Fri, May 22, 2015 Permanent link
Categories: Future, collective intelligence, learning, polytopia, science, inspired
Sent to project: Polytopia
Categories: Future, collective intelligence, learning, polytopia, science, inspired
Sent to project: Polytopia
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