There are people who feel like they have a lot of toys in a box, but they don’t take them out and play with them, and they only know the name of that box.
Similar situation
- Buying plastic models and not assembling them
- Buy the book, don’t read it
relevance
- [abstract and concrete
- abstract name of box instead of concrete contents.
- They put it in a jar and mix it up.
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- Ready to use when needed
- Wealth is not how much you have, but how much you can give
- If you can’t get it out of the box, you can’t give it to them.
- Wisdom? is…
- The phrase “not whether you have…”
- Wisdom? Knowledge? It’s not about having a book written about
- It’s not about knowing the names of abstract concepts.
- whenever necessary
- What is necessary?
- For the problem you want to solve now
- Take out concepts that are useful in solving the problem.
- Can be used
- A variant of “use” is “give to others.”
- The phrase “not whether you have…”
relevance - The disease of saying abstract things and thinking you know what you’re talking about.
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