1. In our lives we often pay a price for knowledge (a different price for each circumstance) (Either it be something negative happening to us or missing a percieved valuable opportunity) Sometimes we don’t recoup the cost of that knowledge during our lifetime, other times we gain it back manifold (Sometimes it’s an unconscious purchase, sometimes even against one’s will)
2. Sometimes it’s a fully thought out transaction, although we often forget later on the reasoning behind our choices (only focusing on the circumstance and the outcome, forgetting how valuable the experience it provided is) For instance, those experiences may have guided us away from certain bad paths in our lives, but we never account the value of the absence of said paths because they are nevermore part of the calculations of where to go since we discard them right away
3. For example, as we grow older, we might think, ’I haven’t encountered anything like that since, so I didn’t gain much from that experience, therefore it wasn’t worth it’ But you haven’t encountered it much because you have knowledge about it, and you might have learned something that allows you to instinctively prevent it from showing up And so we take for granted all the times we make the correct choice (whether big or small), but we often forget that we learned it once, and possibly at a certain price
Gaining knowledge at a price
1. In our lives we often pay a price for knowledge (a different price for each circumstance)
(Either it be something negative happening to us or missing a percieved valuable opportunity)
Sometimes we don’t recoup the cost of that knowledge during our lifetime, other times we gain it back manifold
(Sometimes it’s an unconscious purchase, sometimes even against one’s will)
2. Sometimes it’s a fully thought out transaction, although we often forget later on the reasoning behind our choices (only focusing on the circumstance and the outcome, forgetting how valuable the experience it provided is)
For instance, those experiences may have guided us away from certain bad paths in our lives, but we never account the value of the absence of said paths because they are nevermore part of the calculations of where to go since we discard them right away
3. For example, as we grow older, we might think, ’I haven’t encountered anything like that since, so I didn’t gain much from that experience, therefore it wasn’t worth it’
But you haven’t encountered it much because you have knowledge about it, and you might have learned something that allows you to instinctively prevent it from showing up
And so we take for granted all the times we make the correct choice (whether big or small), but we often forget that we learned it once, and possibly at a certain price