{"id":1071,"date":"2019-11-20T04:17:18","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T09:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/samuelrainey.com\/blog\/?p=1071"},"modified":"2019-11-19T14:22:24","modified_gmt":"2019-11-19T19:22:24","slug":"knowledge-vs-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/samuelrainey.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/knowledge-vs-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"Knowledge vs Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There is a difference in the knowledge of reading about something, and the knowledge of experiencing something.<br><br>It\u2019s the difference between the knowing in our heads and knowing from the heart.\u00a0<br><br>If you\u2019ve been to the Grand Canyon, you know with your whole being the expanse of it all. There are no words to describe it. The grand scale of the depth is beyond what any wikipedia entry could ever help you to know if you\u2019ve never been there. Yes, you can look at a picture, study the stats, and recount the history of how it came to be. But that will never get close to the experience one gets by standing on the South Rim.<br><br>This reminds me of the powerful scene in Good Will Hunting when Sean confronts Will that not all things in life is about knowledge from a book.\u00a0<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oRG2jlQWCsY?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Voltaire said it well, \u201cThe perfect is the enemy of the good.\u201d Letting go of the perfect: The ideal; the manicured or curated social medialife. This might allow us to experience the good.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What we know with our heads sometimes keeps us from knowing with our hearts. We think we know something because we read about it or watched a Ted talk about it. We are inundated with pictures, data, and the expanse of words that tell us about things in life. Yet we\u2019re impoverished in actually experiencing these same things.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What might we find \u2014 about ourselves, or others \u2014 if we moved away from the comfort of knowing, to the <a href=\"http:\/\/samuelrainey.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/comfort\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"discomfort (opens in a new tab)\">discomfort<\/a> of experience?\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>_______________________________________<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a difference in the knowledge of reading about something, and the knowledge of experiencing something. It\u2019s the difference between the knowing in our heads and knowing from the heart.\u00a0 If you\u2019ve been to the Grand Canyon, you know with your whole being the expanse of it all. 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