The Next Thirty Days...Day 8 (The Importance or Worth of Knowledge)

The true worth of knowledge is in being able to apply it when it is required the most. For what worth is all the knowledge you have in the world when it can't answer the simple question life poses to you. Forget life. You may it's broad. Take the exams that you have given so far. At one point or the other there is that just one particular question which you would be able to answer even in the middle of the night when woken up from sleep but it simple tends to miss you at that instance while answering the question. Gone, you have missed those marks. Yet another example could be of that of an interview. The interviewer asks you a question which one of the most simplest one he could have ever asked given your experience and expertise and you end up make a total mess of it, only to walk out and realize "Oh! my God, how could I not answer that". Or for that matter when your boss asked you for suggestion...and you could not come up with any or may be you had a suggestion ready in your mind ..but did not share only to realize it was right and that's precisely what your boss has done. You can't then just walk up to him and say, "that's precisely what I had mind". Boy, in both case you are LATE. The opportunity has gone. You missed the bus. Well if your lucky enough you still be on the bus ...but might have missed to make the real impact that you are capable of.

Hence it is important to realize that knowledge is important and its worth is realized only when it can be applied or it can help you find the way out or make life better for you. If it can't. It's not worth it. Therefore it becomes of utmost importance to constantly keep on revisiting and upgrading the knowledge base and even more importantly the developing an aptitude and ability to apply it correctly. And funnier part of realizing the worth of knowledge is not when you miss the complex questions (surely anyone can miss those) but when you miss answers to most basic questions which makes a significant impact towards solving or simplifying the complex problem or better still solves it. That is the real worth of knowledge.

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