- 悟空 wrote:
RZP has a philosophical bent on a par with Don Rumsfeld's. :-))
"There are known knowns, and there are unknown unknowns."
"We know what we know, we know waht we don't know, and we know there are things we know we don't know we don't know. ..."
When someone uses this kind of lingo to talk about Iraq intel or anything else, you have to put him on the pedestal, and buy in everything he has to offer...
Ha ha. Not sure Don Rumsfeld made it more widely known, or infamouse. However, Rumsfed is not the one who originates it.
First heard that from corporate internal training, I think it makes a lot of sense, the four levels of wisdom or whatever it was called, or just the ackonwledgement of that quadrat of awareness.
I: You know what you know
II: You know what you don't know
III: You don't know what you know
IV:You don't know what you don't know
Typical and ordinary day-to-day activities invlove doing things people know they know, -- by most of the people and at most of the time.
Motivated people, students in schools are learning for stuff they know that they don't know. Being able to see what you dont know is already one level up on the wisdom ladder.
III: now comes the creativities, the innovations, thinking out of the box so to speak......
IV: Finally you are at the risk being called nerd, crazy, disorder, ....., a spark of lighting in a sunny day, or a sudden appearing/disppearing of the person at the snapping of fingers ...... you'd like to call that ... illusion
rzp