Even so, how are you to tell that other people think the knowledge you are gathering is valuable and valid? Rather easy, sell your knowledge to others’ benefit.
Knowledge without knowledge of salesmanship is rarely sell-able. On the other hand, not-valueble and invalid knowledge with knowledge of salesmanship is highly sell-able and unfortunately rampant.
This over-exploited surface layer of making something appear more valuable than it really is -- through marketing, advertising, and salesmanship—enables value to be to be faked. Collectively, we succumb to schemes like this on a daily basis.
I agree, and in so far as avoiding “sales” goes I think it’s been very useful for me to have the knowledge just for avoiding people with knowledge of salesmanship.
Then again, I’m pretty sure I’ve avoided “good” things people were trying to “sell” to me in the past just because they seemed to have little knowledge and a lot of knowledge-of-salesmanship.
Knowledge without knowledge of salesmanship is rarely sell-able. On the other hand, not-valueble and invalid knowledge with knowledge of salesmanship is highly sell-able and unfortunately rampant.
This over-exploited surface layer of making something appear more valuable than it really is -- through marketing, advertising, and salesmanship—enables value to be to be faked. Collectively, we succumb to schemes like this on a daily basis.
I agree, and in so far as avoiding “sales” goes I think it’s been very useful for me to have the knowledge just for avoiding people with knowledge of salesmanship.
Then again, I’m pretty sure I’ve avoided “good” things people were trying to “sell” to me in the past just because they seemed to have little knowledge and a lot of knowledge-of-salesmanship.