Thursday, January 7, 2010

The Answer is the Question

Are you looking for answers?

We often look for answers in the form of information - books, advice, teaching, etc. However, we make a mistake if we confuse information gathering with learning.

The University of California, San Diego did a study of how much information the average American takes in a day. It's 100,500 words or 34 gigabytes of data - a day! That's like filling your computer's hard drive every two days.

But information does not wisdom make.

Read the whole article here. And use the "comment" link below to give your thoughts.

1 comment:

Dave Broucek, Fort Mill, SC said...

You asked for the last "brilliant" question we heard. One I read (not heard) is: "What do you know for sure and what have you inferred?"

This question helps people sort out facts from inferences. They're not the same. The coach may use the response to help a person test, challenge, and perhaps discard unwarranted and counterproductive assumptions.