The 2 words that sabotage

“Try to see the glass half full, not half empty.”
“I know.”

“If you want more business, focus more on your existing clients.”
“I know.”

“Two plus two is four.”
“I know.”

“One which is bound in an atomic orbital has quantized values of angular momentum.”
“I know.”

As an avid observer of people (and my own crazy brain), both successful and not so successful, one of the biggest differences I’ve found are these two simple, but quite harmful, words.

I can befittingly describe it as a water hose; the tubes in your mind flowing with thoughts, your cells rushing and circulating through those wires in your brain, connecting one thought after another. It’s running.. it’s progressing.. it’s learning. And then — cut! The water hose gets twisted and all activity stops. You have reached a limited plateau with these two words: “I know.”

To know something means you know it. You don’t need further information. It’s done. You’ve gotten to the finish line. But did you really get it? What do your actions say?

It’s interesting to see the mental pattern of an “I know-er” (I used to be one). Precisely the action that classifies such with an “I know this already” is what continues to cause problematic struggle, effort and setbacks — repeatedly, until we give up and move on to something else which we may inevitably reduce once again..

So, to read something is to have read it. To hear something is to have heard it. To know something means something entirely different — it is to implement it, to understand the cause and effect, weigh out the outcomes, to keep asking. In other words: putting it into action.

These two words “I. Know.” have a lot of subconscious weight. Heavy, unforgiving weight that suffocates us, leaving behind lazy imprints and allowing us to give up any inkling of hope and motivation to know more. The limit to knowledge and change is as how high or low we would like it to be, so let’s always keep asking and always keep doing..

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