-The wise man knows he doesn-t know.
The fool doesn-t know he doesn-t know.-
Lao Tzu
-In the West they only respect experts.
But the expert mind is the closed mind.-
Shunryu Suzuki
What-s the most important step in fixing a puncture?
It isn-t jacking up the car, or taking the wheel off, or finding the puncture.
There-s something more fundamental than any of those.
Something without which you can-t even begin to fix a puncture. The most important step is finding out you-ve got a puncture. Without that you can-t do anything.
Instead of saying, -It-s just a bit bumpy, must be the road,- and carrying on, you must acknowledge that something has changed and you don-t know what that is.
If you don-t admit you don-t know what-s happening, you can never find out.
If you don-t find out, you can never change it.
The most important step, always, is admitting you don-t know.
That-s the power of ignorance.
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