In our daily life, we will find that there are some people who show off their knowledge and experience every day, and some people will "rely on the old and sell the old" to teach others. These people seem to be smart, but they don't know that their behavior is actually ridiculous. If you give them a real level, it's just fine, but the fact is the opposite, many of these people are half-understood, and belong to the category of full bottles that don't move and half bottles. Although they seem to understand a lot, they are limited to "understanding". When they are asked to really use this "knowledge" and "insight", they are often at a loss, even worse than those who do not understand.
There is a saying in the Bible's book of Proverbs: Knowledge-seekers hide knowledge. The heart of a fool reveals foolishness. That's what we're talking about. We will find that the more truly "knowledgeable" people are, the more humble they are, and the more they feel that they know too little. A good example of this is Newton, who originally believed in the natural sciences but later became a disciple. The more they delved, the more they discovered their ignorance, and the more they discovered that there was a force in the dark that controlled the world. They don't go around showing off their knowledge, but they are humble and even "play dumb". And those who show off their "know-how" everywhere are the fools who say it. The result of their ostentatious performance is often ridiculed. Even if others don't talk about it to their faces, they don't think so. The more they show off, the more they make themselves "ugly".
What does knowledge do for us? We learned physics, mathematics, and a lot of languages, but why? To turn our brains into libraries? Apparently not. The purpose of learning knowledge is to apply. Knowledge that is not practical or used is often forgotten. We can think back to how much we can remember about what we learned when we were in school. Someone once exaggerated that if you just want to survive in society and go to junior high school, knowledge is enough, and you don't need to go to high school and university at all. Although this statement is biased, there is some truth in it. In our daily life, what can be applied is not addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, but nothing more than basic Chinese expressions, some basic physics and chemistry knowledge, etc. Organic chemistry and foreign languages, for example, are generally not involved unless there are special positions. Who cares how sugar is made and how gasoline is refined? We're just consuming these things. It can be seen that the purpose of knowledge is to be applied. We also learn for the sake of application, not for the sake of demonstrating our memory and knowledge. We are not porters of knowledge, but practitioners of knowledge.
The book of Proverbs says, "All those who are well-informed walk in knowledge." Fools proclaim their folly. How do you understand this? Smart people will use what they have learned to make themselves better and better, and make their lives better. And the fool is like a person who sits on a treasure mountain, but can only eat the soil. They may have a lot of knowledge, but they don't apply it, but prefer to solve problems in the simplest and crudest way.
There is a joke in society: first-rate students engage in scientific research, second-rate students go to work, and third-rate students become bosses. Some people use this kind of poisonous chicken soup to persuade people to give up going to school for further study, but they actually misunderstand the true connotation of this paragraph. Why can't first-class and second-rate students be bosses, and can't go to the "pinnacle of life" that the world expects, to be bosses, do big business, and make a lot of money? First-class students are often obsessed with research, immersed in knowledge and scientific research, and do not pay attention to other aspects, and even have weak emotional intelligence and social experience. You should have seen a report about a doctor who studied in the United States recently, he was deceived to the point that he lost his ability to work and became a homeless man, is it because he has learned less knowledge? It's because it's not fully used! Doesn't he know the knowledge of deception? But he didn't apply it to life, so he was deceived. Second-rate students have also learned a lot of knowledge, but they have not fully understood the essence of it, and they have become half a bucket of water, which is not high or low, so they can only solve some simple problems, and can only work for others to eat, and have no ability to start their own business. Those so-called "third-rate students", although they have learned little, have applied their limited knowledge to the extreme, and their comprehensive ability is better than the first two, so they can easily crawl around in society, and finally "graduate from social university", become bosses, and have their own careers.
The above cases are not a common phenomenon, and we should not take them out of context. Not all third-rate students have become bosses, and more "third-rate students" are struggling in basic positions. First-class and second-rate students, at least have achieved class evolution or solidification, and will not sink into basic positions. The main point here is that the application of knowledge is essential to our growth and development. Only those who are good at learning knowledge and applying it will develop better than others. We can see that there are many high-level intellectuals who have successfully started their own businesses. They have more knowledge than others, and their careers have a higher starting point than others, and they are more likely to succeed, and they are good at using their knowledge to create more opportunities for themselves.
In modern society, it is difficult to make a big career breakthrough by relying solely on small intelligence, relying on manual labor and low intellectual activity. Even if you set up a stall in a night market, you need to observe and understand the preferences and needs of customers, and strive to improve the quality of service in order for business to prosper. The ability to learn and the ability to apply knowledge is the source of personal growth and the key element that determines the success or failure of our career.
We will find that many people who achieve the goal of "more money, less work, and closer to home" are people who know how to use knowledge. Some consulting agencies rely entirely on selling intellectual activities to obtain value, and the growth rate and profits of enterprises are much higher than those of the real economy. This is the power of knowledge.
We must be knowledgeable and knowledgeable people, continue to learn and grow and apply knowledge to personal development, and help ourselves to achieve better development. Don't be satisfied with "knowing" knowledge, let alone "showing off" your knowledge in ignorance.