Knowledge is power, when we use it constructively

    Knowledge is power, when we use it constructively.  We often hear that, ” knowledge is power.” But this statement is only a half-truth. Knowledge is only potential power. Knowledge is power only when put to use and then only when the use made of it is constructive.

    

    The story is told that the great scientist Albert Einstein was once asked how many feet are in a mile. Einstein’s reply was, “I don’t know. Why should I fill my brain with of facts like this? I can find in two minutes in any standard reference book.” Albert Einstein taught us a big lesson. He felt it was more important to use your mind to think than to use it as a warehouse for facts.

One time Henry Ford was involved in a libel suit with the Chicago Tribune. The Tribune had called Henry Ford an ignoramus and Ford, a man of great respect, said in effect, “prove it.” The tribune asked him scores of simple questions such as “Who was Benedict Arnold?”, ”When was the revolutionary war fought?” and others, most of which Henry Ford, who had little formal education, could not answer.

Finally he became quite frustrated and said, ”I don’t know the answers to those questions, but I could find out the man in five minutes who does.” Henry Ford was never interested in miscellaneous information. He knew what every major executive knows: the ability to know how to get information is more important than using the mind as a bank for facts.

These are the following ways to cure delicate intelligence– 

 

1.Never underestimate your own intelligence and never overestimate the intelligence of others. Concentrate on your assets, discover your superior talents. Remember, it is not how many brains you’ve got that matters. Rather, it is how you use your brains in that case.

2.Remind yourself several times daily, ”my attitude is more important than my intelligence.” Be positive in your every work or thinking. Find out the reasons why you can do it, not the reasons why you can not. Put your intelligence to creative positive use. Use it to find ways to win, not to prove you will lose.

3.Remember that the ability to think is of much greater value than the ability to memorize the facts. Use your mind to create and develop ideas to find new and better ways to do things.