Reflex / Knowledge ratio
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"Life rewards action, not knowledge."
This simply means that the more you act (and it's best to act in a timely fashion), the more life rewards you.
Acting at the precisely right time when the opportunity is available, is called "reflex."
A reflex necessarily contains a LOT of thoroughly assimilated knowledge. That is, knowledge that you thoroughly understood and integrated into your way of knowing and being.
Knowledge, however, doesn't necessarily contain reflexes. In fact, most of what we know are junk. Even if the knowledge, at one point, was useful, it quickly becomes obsolete (hence, intellectual Alvin Toffler refers to it as "obsoledge.")
Therefore, the success secret is to try to know less, but have more reflexes or better reflexes.
To have better reflexes (mental as well as physical), you have to train continuously. This is the warrior's way of life. His mind and body are so sharp that an enemy could jump out of nowhere, suddenly and without warning, yet the warrior would be ready to deliver a lethal blow to this foe!
Unfortunately, the entire structure of society -- dominated socially and culturally by the mass media -- conditions us to become passive receptors of junk information every day (TV news, advertising, etc.).
By focusing on the Reflex / Knowledge Ratio, you can take control of your life and your consciousness.
How does it work? Just count the number of minutes that you spend, every day, PRACTICING how to do something productive (writing, speaking, selling, influencing, organizing, etc.). This is the reflex part.
Then count the number of minutes or hours that you spend passively ingesting information provided by other people (TV, movies, magazines, ads, etc.).
Successful people have a high Reflex / Knowledge Ratio.
"Life rewards action, not knowledge."
This simply means that the more you act (and it's best to act in a timely fashion), the more life rewards you.
Acting at the precisely right time when the opportunity is available, is called "reflex."
A reflex necessarily contains a LOT of thoroughly assimilated knowledge. That is, knowledge that you thoroughly understood and integrated into your way of knowing and being.
Knowledge, however, doesn't necessarily contain reflexes. In fact, most of what we know are junk. Even if the knowledge, at one point, was useful, it quickly becomes obsolete (hence, intellectual Alvin Toffler refers to it as "obsoledge.")
Therefore, the success secret is to try to know less, but have more reflexes or better reflexes.
To have better reflexes (mental as well as physical), you have to train continuously. This is the warrior's way of life. His mind and body are so sharp that an enemy could jump out of nowhere, suddenly and without warning, yet the warrior would be ready to deliver a lethal blow to this foe!
Unfortunately, the entire structure of society -- dominated socially and culturally by the mass media -- conditions us to become passive receptors of junk information every day (TV news, advertising, etc.).
By focusing on the Reflex / Knowledge Ratio, you can take control of your life and your consciousness.
How does it work? Just count the number of minutes that you spend, every day, PRACTICING how to do something productive (writing, speaking, selling, influencing, organizing, etc.). This is the reflex part.
Then count the number of minutes or hours that you spend passively ingesting information provided by other people (TV, movies, magazines, ads, etc.).
Successful people have a high Reflex / Knowledge Ratio.
posted by Super Peter at 3:11 PM
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