Learning Histories LO4459

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Thu, 28 Dec 1995 05:41:33 -0500

Replying to LO4450 --

irt: K.C. Burgess Yakemovic, Wed, Dec 27, 1995 10:15 PM EST

Tony Robbins says the way to get everything you want in life is "ask." And
since you asked, here goes.

K.C. Indicated:
... there are two points of focus
a) improving the value of the information in the history
b) reducing the work of accessing it

And I ask, is there not also a third? Is it not also essential to develop
a belief that the information is of sufficient value that I am willing to
overcome the self-discounting which occurs when I admit that I don't know
and some other source might be smarter than I?

K.C. also comments:

The difficulty with improving the value of the information in the history
is that it requires people with a history to use as a basis for "guessing"
what information will be useful in the future. ...

And I respond:

Would not the "guessing" tend to bias the development of the information
and potentially eliminate what might be most useful? And, we are
overwhelmed with data, there is far less informaiton, even less knowledge,
and far less wisdom. And if I consider the wisdom which I have managed to
acquire in the last 40 years it would probably fit quite nicely on less
than a dozen sheets of paper. So what does it make most sense to capture?

So in response to K.C. last question:

(Of course, I'd love to have someone show me that it is possible
to improve the value of the information in the history... :-)

I wonder if the answer might be that if I learn, then that past
information which was of little value might be of more value, for I may be
better able to understand the value in it!

--
Gene Bellinger
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