Comments on: When You Don’t Know, You Will Pay The Higher Price

By: Josten

Josten — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 05:11:42 +0000

That is how i live my life. Constantly learning in every area that i can. I’m a open minded type of person who enjoys learning new things.

By: Bob

Bob — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 12:47:31 +0000

Serious question; why is it that everyone agrees that education is the most important thing in life, but it is also one of the first things that get funding cuts when there is a downturn in the economy? I would think the last or most important things would have reduced funding like teachers, police, and fire and rescue.

By: Amy Twain

Amy Twain — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 08:50:34 +0000

“…listen to others, even to the dull and the ignorant;
they too have their story.”—Desiderata. Don’t underestimate others just because they don’t look the part of someone whom you may need to learn from.

Great post about knowing where and (from whom) to get infos where you can get it.

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Cheers,
Amy

By: Mr. Self Development

Mr. Self Development — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:44:08 +0000

Thanks for the comment Tristan…

By: Mr. Self Development

Mr. Self Development — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:37:13 +0000

Very well said Brett….

By: Faramarz - Anxious Candy

Faramarz - Anxious Candy — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 06:35:21 +0000

Excellent point about how your 10 is a leaders 2 – Thinking about this will really help you to not take your problems so seriously. Another that leaders can do is to PAY for information – just think about that example of Ford in think and grow rich

By: Tristan Lee

Tristan Lee — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 05:42:58 +0000

Hey Mr. Self Development, thanks for writing this. I really enjoyed that story in the beginning. It was really funny!

You also gave a story about how your wife’s sister asked you something you already knew (like it was common sense).

The more one knows in life, the better off that they will be, however, I only agree with this if they actually turn their knowledge and put it into action.

Some people enjoy consuming as much knowledge as possible. Even if the maintenance guy in the beginning of the story had the knowledge of the screw, but did not put it in, nothing would have had happened.

I think knowledge is useless if we don’t put it to use.

By: Tiffany

Tiffany — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 23:17:12 +0000

Another great post Mr. SD….thanks for this!

By: bretthimself

bretthimself — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 23:01:24 +0000

This article had me pondering for awhile. It seemed so arbitrary, so insignificant, to me. What should we do then? Endlessly seek to acquire knowledge?

No.

It finally dawned on me: learn from other people all the time. If you don’t think you can learn from people at any given moment, you’re not looking hard enough. You can learn from their successes and from the failures, and that gives you the knowledge how to repeat the former and avoid the latter.

And, above all, if you don’t know something, ask someone. Their answer probably won’t cost you a penny.

However: don’t always look to follow others. Learn to lead and have conviction in yourself at all times. But that also means that you need to ask when you have the conviction that you don’t know.

Hope that makes sense. Excellent post.

By: Coach J

Coach J — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 21:58:56 +0000

I love the message of this blog post.

Even more than being a student of the world, I think it’s important to be a student of yourself. Why do you think the way you do? Why do you do what you do? And just like in your post, if you don’t know the answers to these questions, you may have to pay a pretty steep price. I know… I have the receipts to prove it!

Thanks again.