The break-throughs I shared with you came from 1) things I've read or heard; and 2) analyzing my own experiences. I would guess that half of it was stimulated by an audio book I just started listening to: The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything by Ken Robinson, Ph.D. I wrote my break-throughs after listening to the first 40 minutes: Dr. Robinson shared stories of children who exhibited talents in dance, music, and mathematics. After I wrote my break-throughs, I returned to his book. He essentially repeated several of my ideas back to me (except for the connecting concepts one, but I bet I'll hear it soon). This only solidified an idea I've come to understand over the past year:
#4a: Knowledge is like energy. It simply exists and it cannot be created or destroyed. This is my theory, built on information I've taken in over the years. How many times have individuals come up with the same ideas on opposite sides of the world and generations apart when there was no plausible way for them to communicate? (Think natives and early scientists.) Therefore, I believe that everything I've ever come up with isn't truly mine. I've discovered it for myself, but it's built off of information that others have given me, and I know I can't be the only one with these conclusions. Then what's so special about me and my discoveries?
#4b: Knowledge changes form over time, and the form is always unique. After I receive knowledge, I give it to those I touch in my unique way - in this location at this time (with the technology and connections I have), and I give it using my talents and abilities (through images, words, kinesthetics, etc). Engineers or musicians may not be able to comprehend my pictures or lines of thought, but there is someone else who can explain the exact same ideas to them.
Knowledge is power. However, keeping it secret it is a false sense of power, because someone else has it, too. If we don't give away what we have, someone else will. So I think we might as well share it.
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