Pondering Infinite Ignorance

Giving up the need to have the answer for everything.

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From the time we start school, the world gets divided into right answers and wrong answers. Tests and grades gave us the idea that we could know all the correct answers.

The world of work strengthens this idea that we can and should have all the answers.

Let’s instead consider something else.

Infinite Ignorance

Here’s what Karl Popper had to say…

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The more we know, the more realize how little we know. Understanding this truth requires a level of humility and a healthy dose of curiosity.

🌀 Reflection:

As you read these questions resist the need to ‘answer’ right away. Sit with the question for a while.

🌱 What's possible out of not knowing?

🌱 What possibilities are created when we don’t have all the answers?

🌱 Why is humility and curiosity required when we are ‘infinitely ignorant?’