May 24, 2020, 18:57 IST

If knowledge is power, how powerful are you?

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Is knowledge power? No it is not power! Can it become power? Yes, it can. How can it become power? It becomes power when one learns how to ‘apply’ it?
Knowledge contains full of ‘useful’ information that are capable of changing one’s life, but if one does not know how to” use or apply” it, that knowledge is as good as ignorance! Therefore knowledge per se is devoid of any power, but has the potential to become power.

Knowledge becomes power in the hands of the person who uses and applies it. The knowledge of applying the knowledge is called “Skill-sets”. Without learning skill-sets, knowledge becomes useless and therefore, powerless.

It is knowledge and skills-sets put together make one powerful. If one is missing, other is useless and such a person becomes powerless. Now, can knowledge and skill-sets put together make you powerful ‘actually?’ The answer is ‘not necessarily!!’

This is because; knowledge does not know what is good and bad, right and wrong, appropriate and inappropriate. In the hands of a crooked scientist, knowledge could become an indomitable weapon of destruction and intimidation. Another example: Radicalization of youth to become terrorists.

So what makes a person truly powerful depends upon how and where he uses his skill-sets and competencies to apply the knowledge he has acquired – the “Purpose” becomes extremely important. This is the reason some leaders are feared while the others, loved and we call such leaders “great influencers!”

Skill-sets with the ‘knowing’ where the newly acquired knowledge can take one in life is called ‘vision’ and when it is applied with the intent of ‘changing lives in a positive way,’ makes not only any individual, but companies too hugely powerful.

I can list many examples: Bill Gates understood the power of ‘Click’ and applied it to make a Microsoft. Uber understood the power of ‘networking of cars,’ used that knowledge and went on to become a powerful corporation. Flipkart, PayTm, Amazon……the list is endless!

So how powerful you could become depends up on first knowing what you know and to know that you know; and the ability and skillsets to apply what you know with a vision to change human life in a positive way!


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