Information is Potential Power
Many people believe that information is power. This is wrong. Information is potential power and I’m going to explain to you why this is. In explaining this though, its actually going to allow you to capitalize, per say, on all the knowledge that you already have!
I explain this a lot to my consulting clients, when they ask me “why is action so important, why can’t I just think my way out of it?”. Well, why is it?
I’ll explain it to you with an analogy of a car and gas. Gas and fuel is like knowledge, personal development, and training of any kind. The more information you have the more POTENTIAL power you have. Now the vehicle is that which your applying the knowledge in.
For instance, you can know how to market online very well, but if your in a crapy company your only going to be able to do so. Just as if you have great fuel but your driving a Ford Focus your only going to be able to drive so fast. But if you get in a ferrari with that fuel you will fly!
But there is very important KEY in this puzzle… How to the car actually move? Can it drive its self? No. You have to push down the pedal, Ex. TAKE ACTION for the vehicle to move.
So in saying this, you can have the best vehicle (company) in world, personally develop yourself and take training for 20 years, but if you dont actually push down the pedal and take action you WONT MOVE.
This means that all your knowledge that you have is only potential power until it has a conduit to flow through. And this conduit is taking action.
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Perfectly said. Knowledge without action is useless and action without knowledge is dangerous.. Thanks for sharing this post..
you got it! And your welcome
I loved this. It makes perfect sense. When you explained it this way, it helped to answer the questions I had in my mind – of how to leverage your potential.Thanks.
I’m glad you liked it! Thank YOU
It was great to see this idea expressed in my reader. The other day, I bought a postcard with a quotation on by French-Canadian writer (among other things) that has a very similar sentiment: “Il y a plus de courage que de talent dans la plupart des réussites.” (“There’s more courage than talent in the majority of successes.”) It’s now stuck on my fridge.
well thank you! And thats an awesome quote! I’m gonna have to write it down, thanks
No problem! Yeah it’s a good one to note down and remember. Motivates me to not hesitate to get out there and do things.
So true. Knowledge is nothing unless you use it.
Yup, you cant have one without the other
Sweetie,
I love your blog but in order to be taken more credibly, you’ll need to clean up your spelling and language usage. When you use the word “your” it can only mean the possessive, such as your book. You use it in instances when you need to use a contraction of you are “you’re”, such as you’re the one who will gain.
In today’s post, “per se” is spelled this way. Crappy has two “p’s”. You should capitalize proper nouns such as Ferrari. Do you run a grammar check before you post? I’m sure most people won’t notice but I think you have big plans and the more professional you look, the better.
Just trying to help, Lorraine
Thanks Lorraine, I’ll keep that in mind when I’m posting
Knowledge without action is of no use. Actions, on the other hand, can breed knowledge.
Knowledge without sharing …. It’s loosing is Purpose !!! Thank You Thomas !! Great to exchange and share with People as You and Sorry for A ” Not So Perfect English ” !!!! I am only Reffering and see it one comment here attracting my attention by ” such a High Concerning ” of a perfect Gammar !!! To that I will just say that in Sharing Light , it is no need for ” a perfect Garmmar ” in order to gain Credibility !!!! Souls are Only Speaking the same Lunguage which will be very understandable for the Ones being of the same level !!!! Many Blessings Thomas !!!! I perfectely understand your ” Soul Message and Lunguage ” !!!!!!
Well thanks! Yeah I agree on that. But you can’t control everyone’s perception of you. All you can do is be yourself and attract others who are like you