How to save the world
There are over 30 million blogs on the Internet. I subscribe to only one: this posting is particularly good and inspiring!
I like the following excerpt:
"Share Your Expertise & Knowledge: If you have talents, specialized know-how, or technical or scientific skills and knowledge that could be useful in solving birth control, clean energy, disease prevention, conservation, animal cruelty, pollution and waste, local self-sufficiency, non-animal foods, 'more-with-less' product streamlining, self-organization, collaboration, consumer and citizen awareness and activism, animal communication, conflict resolution, mental illness, and other issues contributing to environmental deterioration, create exchanges and spaces where others can access what you know, contact you, and collaborate with you and with others to solve these problems. This work is essential to making Sustainability Information Exchanges work: Using shared, citizen/consumer knowledge to wrench power from irresponsible oligopolies and corporatists, and creating peer-to-peer networks that will render them obsolete."
The success secret I came across is that sharing knowledge openly is the one activity a person can do which will impact so many areas of his/her life.
You can meet new people, you gain a bit of respect from them (and from your family / friends), you explore new horizons, you learn to communicate better and to listen more attentively, you feel more confident, you increase your self-esteem, you meet interesting and exciting people (yes, yes, I meet interesting girls too! Although I'm only interested in talking to my future wife...), you perfect your knowhow, you test the limits of what you know, you become more effective as a professional, you accelerate your career, you have a richer social life, etc.
All of these benefits come naturally as the result of one decision: the decision to share what you know with the world.
Every person I know actually knows a lot. It's just that they haven't decided to share their knowledge. As a result, they don't seek opportunities to share their knowledge, and because of this, they never get a chance to practice the delivery of their knowledge to people.
The more you share your knowledge, the more you master it. This sense of "mastering what it is that you know" is called "fluency."
This fluency is truly a blissful mental feeling. When you teach a subject and master it completely, you feel an incredible sense of accomplishment. Your sense of self-control and feeling of empowerment is just awesome.
This is why I always encourage people to share what they know, in a small-group setting.
Sharing one's knowledge not only liberates oneself but also can liberate other people, who have so much to gain from your knowledge.
I like the following excerpt:
"Share Your Expertise & Knowledge: If you have talents, specialized know-how, or technical or scientific skills and knowledge that could be useful in solving birth control, clean energy, disease prevention, conservation, animal cruelty, pollution and waste, local self-sufficiency, non-animal foods, 'more-with-less' product streamlining, self-organization, collaboration, consumer and citizen awareness and activism, animal communication, conflict resolution, mental illness, and other issues contributing to environmental deterioration, create exchanges and spaces where others can access what you know, contact you, and collaborate with you and with others to solve these problems. This work is essential to making Sustainability Information Exchanges work: Using shared, citizen/consumer knowledge to wrench power from irresponsible oligopolies and corporatists, and creating peer-to-peer networks that will render them obsolete."
The success secret I came across is that sharing knowledge openly is the one activity a person can do which will impact so many areas of his/her life.
You can meet new people, you gain a bit of respect from them (and from your family / friends), you explore new horizons, you learn to communicate better and to listen more attentively, you feel more confident, you increase your self-esteem, you meet interesting and exciting people (yes, yes, I meet interesting girls too! Although I'm only interested in talking to my future wife...), you perfect your knowhow, you test the limits of what you know, you become more effective as a professional, you accelerate your career, you have a richer social life, etc.
All of these benefits come naturally as the result of one decision: the decision to share what you know with the world.
Every person I know actually knows a lot. It's just that they haven't decided to share their knowledge. As a result, they don't seek opportunities to share their knowledge, and because of this, they never get a chance to practice the delivery of their knowledge to people.
The more you share your knowledge, the more you master it. This sense of "mastering what it is that you know" is called "fluency."
This fluency is truly a blissful mental feeling. When you teach a subject and master it completely, you feel an incredible sense of accomplishment. Your sense of self-control and feeling of empowerment is just awesome.
This is why I always encourage people to share what they know, in a small-group setting.
Sharing one's knowledge not only liberates oneself but also can liberate other people, who have so much to gain from your knowledge.
posted by Super Peter at 10:36 AM
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