"Up here in this band is 'I am,' 'I know.' 'I know' is in that band. Anybody here in that band would know all there is to know about epistemology. Know, knowledge—all knowledge is there.
"Did you ever see a fellow walk out and pick up a set of golf clubs and knock a ball down the line 220 yards or something of the sort and say, 'Gee, I think I like golf.' And he goes on and he plays golf for a few days; all of a sudden he gets terrible, he never gets that good afterwards. Did you ever see this happen?
"Well, it's very simple. The fellow walked up, looked at the golf clubs and says, 'I know,' picked it up, knew, hit, bang! After a few days he looked at a lot of the duffers around him and he decided that he couldn't possibly know, that there was a lot to learn about golf. Second he decided that he became a lousy player—boom!
"Any one of you, when you were young, had the experience of walking up to a piece of machinery, equipment or something of the sort, and you knew exactly what to do with it. ...
"But 'I know' is up here. It is that terrific, easy, self-confidence, self-assurance of being able to do anything or to know anything. One examination by perception: you know."
— L. Ron Hubbard
1 comment:
hmmm....nice post sir!
my comments are more or less related to ur post
i think that when person starts thinking that he knows everything, then there are less chances of his creativity or progress, reason being he assumes that he has reached the ultimate point and there is no more space for new things to happen;his mind stops taking any suggestions...
being confident is a good quality,but confidence always suffers from a disease called 'ego'..
with regards
Prashant Markanday
Ambala Cantt
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