THERE IS NOTHING OUT THERE THAT YOU DON'T ALREADY KNOW

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Literally. That's it.

This is how this topic would probably be finished in case I was a zen master, but I'm not so I need to go into explanation of something unexplainable. And here it is.

Most of us grew up training ourselves to gather as much information as needed to be successful, productive, smart? And luckily enough - we happen to live in times that brings all that information on couple of clicks from us. And this might have encouraged the illusion that by having all these information - we are much more successful, productive and smart. Wrong.

First of all - bunch of information is NOT knowledge. I had a chance to work on educational system that was gathering and spreading a lot of very valuable information to groups of scientists. So we were discussing about this product's tagline and what it is and at that moment (despite the fact that it was always so obvious) I realized that our tagline cannot contain "knowledge" because that's a completely different category! The amount of information gathered in one place, even if it's someone's mind is nothing more than bunch of info. It takes something else to transfer it into knowledge and only then these information get the vital energy to bring some value.

So, what is this ingredient? What helps us with this transition from holding lots of info to having knowledge integrated within?

The answer is simple - it's understanding. Understanding of the right context of the information and being open to understand even more about it if possible. Which is basically - a miracle! Understanding of things is a miracle because you can't really control it. It just happens. And it happens all the time, in abundance. This means two things:

1. Gaining knowledge is not something we control (of course, we need to be active in order to manage to gain anything);

2. We keep on understand things every day only if we are curious enough. So there's some source of knowledge that keeps on effuse all-needed information in the right context that we can digest.

And when the moment of understanding happens - it's been followed by interesting feeling of amazement and relief. This without any doubt shows that something amazing indeed happened to us. And that is when the knowledge is gained.

Now, when I say that there is nothing our there that you don't already know - to make it more contextual - you know exactly everything you should know and you will most definitely gather information needed to gain additional knowledge that will be revealed to you when the time comes and the only part that depends on you is your curiosity and openness. The only effort that makes sense is the effort to stay open, be interested and wait for the understanding to hit you at the right moment. And be ready to hit back with the nice feeling of gratitude. That's all.

“If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.“ Vincent Van Gogh

This is also why so many people advice that you just "go and do it"! That's because - you know exactly enough to do your stuff. If it doesn't work - it's either not your stuff or the moment is not correct. But there's nothing to worry about. Because your existence confirms that there IS something exactly right for you at any given time. You just need to calm down, be persistent in putting effort into things that matter and wait for the right thing to happen.