Knowledge Is Power, Or Is It?
According to Naopleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich, the fourth step to riches is specialized knowledge. What is specialized knowledge?
Hill says that there are two types of knowledge, general and specialized. General knowledge deals with what I like to call 'book smarts.' A great example of this would be in the college/university arena. There is an abundance of intelligent professors that are making little. Why is it that some of the smartest people in the country are some of the poorest? It is not because of the field they have chosen, but do to the fact that they don't know how to use that knowledge.
"Knowledge will not attract money, unless it is organized, and intelligently directed through practical plans of action, to the definite end of accumulation of money." This is an outright contradiction to the popular belief that knowledge is power.
How then can one take advantage of knowledge to attain wealth? By taking using that knowledge to develop an organized and definitve plan to get rich. This is specialized knowledge.
I think that education is crucial to the development of one's thoughts. It is not about the amount of general or specialized knowledge you posess, but about drawing out or developing your thought processes in an organized manner.
"An educated man is one who has so developed the faculties of his mind that he may acquire anything he wants, or its equivalent, without violating the rights of others."
Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich
Hill says that there are two types of knowledge, general and specialized. General knowledge deals with what I like to call 'book smarts.' A great example of this would be in the college/university arena. There is an abundance of intelligent professors that are making little. Why is it that some of the smartest people in the country are some of the poorest? It is not because of the field they have chosen, but do to the fact that they don't know how to use that knowledge.
"Knowledge will not attract money, unless it is organized, and intelligently directed through practical plans of action, to the definite end of accumulation of money." This is an outright contradiction to the popular belief that knowledge is power.
How then can one take advantage of knowledge to attain wealth? By taking using that knowledge to develop an organized and definitve plan to get rich. This is specialized knowledge.
I think that education is crucial to the development of one's thoughts. It is not about the amount of general or specialized knowledge you posess, but about drawing out or developing your thought processes in an organized manner.
"An educated man is one who has so developed the faculties of his mind that he may acquire anything he wants, or its equivalent, without violating the rights of others."
Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich
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