KNOWLEDGE AND CAPACITY

 

There’s a sweet and profound difference between knowledge and capacity. 

Knowledge is usually acquired or assimilated through reading or listening to information that is communicated and understood.

Capacity is grown or built usually through personal meditation or application that transforms that knowledge or understanding into practical manifestation and personal mastery, to the level or extent that it manifests almost or actually unconsciously.

You’ve probably heard of the 4 main levels of competence: 

1. Unconscious Incompetence 

2. Conscious Incompetence 

3. Conscious Competence 

4. Unconscious Competence 

That fourth level is the dimension where the “word has become flesh”, meaning, the lettered information or knowledge acquired has further undergone transformation, in-depth imbibing or is personalized and internalized so much so that the individual is now an embodiment of such values and actionable thoughts which the knowledge consists of. In biblical words, a “living epistle “.

Head knowledge or mental articulation is good, very good, and should be basic education for people, whether it is theological or in other areas of learning. It must firstly be accurate information or true knowledge to be a blessing and not a blunder of immense proportions. It should then be useful knowledge that is applicable to the real needs of humanity. These two parameters are key: accuracy and applicability.

Beyond this, however, the ability or capacity to do or to action what is known or professed to be known is where the rubber meets the road.

The conscious knowledge and the subconscious or inbuilt capacity or capability to essentially “be” and to practically “live out” what is learnt or known is the big issue which defines the difference seen and experienced in our lives.

So, as the saying goes, “knowledge is power” but it could be only potential power or latent ability which may then need to be further developed or grown into intention, action, and usefulness. 

Indeed, the goal of knowledge is not merely for knowledge sake or for showing off, boasting or feeling superior as in cases where “knowledge puffs up”; but it is for action, attitude, outlook, worldview and behavior that enhances people’s lives or experience of life, practically, inside out, from their pre-knowledge state to their post-knowledge status.

“And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”

Thank you for reading.

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