Tuesday, May 29, 2012

The Value of Ignorance

by Rick Nason, PhD, CFA

Partner, RSD Solutions Inc.

www.RSDsolutions.com

info@RSDsolutions.com

 

 

Sometimes it pays to be ignorant.  You are forced to make connections between the things you know about and the things you do not know about.  You are forced to proceed in baby steps; checking results along the way and constantly correcting and adjusting your path.  When you are ignorant you are forced to synthesize.  When you don’t know, you feel weak and humble.

 

When you know – that is when you are not ignorant – you confidently charge ahead, damming the torpedoes along the way.  With knowledge you feel powerful and invincible.

 

When you don’t know about something you are forced to pause and to think.  That is valuable.

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