Reading mails and writing are considered as waste. How do we inspire such folks to do depth reading, insight generation etc which is feasible only by reading and going into depth rather than endless mails and meetings and reviews with no acceptable goalpost.

Take a certain area say personal health. A knowledge of what affects health can illuminate certain patterns you see in life. I think of it as progressive.

Frankly, I am far from Ultimate knowledge and other similar concepts. I think of knowledge as incremental. Every bit of additional knowledge shows you how much you don’t really know.

The knowledge we have about the world has been incremental and I don’t think of it as ever being complete. Each one of us chips away in a specific area of interest. For example, even after 30+ years of startups, I still don’t know what makes a product successful. But my knowledge in that space is getting better all the time.

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So, the point is there will always be something more to attain in terms of knowledge. So when will I say that I have attained the knowledge?

Some may argue that it is never fully attained and the idea is to continuously improve on attaining more and more knowledge. So what if I continuously attain knowledge? What does it give us?

Your last line in the quote says knowledge MAKES US POWERFUL. Yes, the more knowledge we attain the more powerful we are. But the more powerful we are the more anxious we are to attain more knowledge so that we remain the most powerful.

But is that the objective of knowledge – To make us powerful.

Now, assuming that is what we all want, the solution should be to attain that knowledge after which there is nothing more to attain. In other words, what is it that by knowing which we do not need to know anything else. If we know that then we don’t need to be more powerful anymore as that would make the us the most powerful for ever.

May be that is why Scientists are all trying to find out the GOD PARTICLE, or the Unified Theory. May be that is why Saints and Sadhus are all trying to find out that knowledge by knowing which we do not need to know anything else.

But that one knowledge seems to be very elusive to all.

All I can say is that, that one knowledge must be the basis for all TRUTH and hence it is called the SUPREME TRUTH and that is why it is said that we must all meditate upon that SUPREME TRUTH – सत्यं परम् धीमहि

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