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Does It Benefit The Intellectually Curious To Store Knowledge
He died having stored within his mind knowledge that was never discussed, used, or shared. He didn’t seem to correlate what he was learning with a productive outcome and the result seemed to be a wasted life. He was intellectually curious about the world, but it didn’t seem to lead anywhere. His desire to cast a big vision for others didn’t pair well with the results we were seeing in his life and we concluded the knowledge he stored was useless.
The intellectually curious ask a lot of questions. There is an insatiable desire to know more. There are things to figure out and ways to get answers and off we go on the journey of knowing. It is a way to alleviate boredom. There is a problem that needs solved, realistically or theoretically, and we get busy solving it. In the process we accumulate and store data, facts, observations, experiences, and knowledge into our personal database.
Is there any benefit to stocking your mind with knowledge if it is not used?
A study of the famous detective Sherlock Holmes reveals that he fed his deductive powers with information. He felt it was important to possess all knowledge which was likely to be used to do his work and he accomplished that through reading materials that provided the information he needed later on. He had a system for collecting and…
