False Knowledge

"Beware of false knowledge, it is more dangerous than ignorance."
George Bernard Shaw

How do you KNOW that what you KNOW is TRUE? Experience? Someone you trust tells you? You read it in some book, magazine or blog?

Shaw says that "it is more dangerous than ignorance." Now, there's a statement to think about. False knowledge is worse than NO knowledge!! To me that means that we better know what we know and we better KNOW it to be true.

Deep down inside all of us, there's something that tells us what is true and what is not. Many people today have turned off that ability. If that is you, turn it back on. You KNOW when something is right and you also feel it when it is wrong.

In this New Economy, more and more people are going back to using that ability to decide who to hang around with, who to do business with and who to trust. We got away from that for a few decades, but people intuitively know that they need to use that ability more and more.

Here's the key: Be Authentic! Be who you were meant to be. When you are being authentic, you can tell someone that you don't know the answer. It's ok to not know. In fact, it's better than saying that you have the answer and making something up...

"Beware of false knowledge, it is more dangerous than ignorance."