Real and Imagined Literacy

These two things exist . . .

There is knowing something.

And then there is doing something.

The one does not imply the other.

In fact it was Aristotle who said "the things we must learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them".

Sound Circular? So many things in life are. There is the vicious cycle; there is also the virtuous cycle, which is just the opposite. Either one can make your head spin.

In the movie The Secret it may seem that they are talking mostly about knowing something, or at least thinking or believing something.

But some people miss the emphasis on doing something. When the inspiration is there; ACT!

And that is all you have to do . . . (Joe Vitale).

In many parts of the world, the populations are not literate. They have little chance of being able to rise out of poverty because they are unable to read.

In the rest of the world, many are Unliterate. They know how to read . . .

But they choose not to. . . At least not to read anything that might expand their horizons.

And as a result they have little chance of rising out of whatever life they have already made for themselves.

So I feel to ask this simple question . . .

Which group is worse off? The group who can't?

Or the group who won't?

What kind of a message is that to send to your subconscious?

It is not going to make the connection that one might be trying to make, that's for sure.

The connection between a person ----

And their real power.

Which is their power to learn. That is the key to all of the rest of it.

Joseph