Life comprises two elements:
- Pose; and
- Substance
- Unless you look the part you are never going to play the part; and
- There’s no use in looking under “L” for Landing in the Idiots
Guide to Flying when you’re about to touch down.
This notion
of “pose and substance” has an interesting footnote.
We have been taught to believe that there are only three kinds of knowledge:
- What we know we know;
- What we know we don’t know; and
- What we don’t know we don’t know.
While this
may be scientifically accurate in the sense that it can be proven, life isn’t
always scientific. At some point in our
lives, with some more often than others, everybody finds themselves knowing how
to act in a completely new situation, something they had never dreamt of having
to do. How does that work?
While
scientists may not like it, there is a fourth kind of knowledge: What we don’t
know we know.
Those among
us who are more easily more willing to adopt a challenging pose are usually
also those who most readily accept that we can tap into a universal source of
knowledge in ways we may not be able to explain or understand but which is
there if we expect it to be. Some people
accept this consciously and are able to use it at will. Most, however, only discover or use this
parachute of knowledge when they are in unexpected crisis … and then end up
believing it was dumb luck. More’s the
pity!



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