Difference between what you know and what you think you know...

Reading books have really helped me very much, and couple of instances were realized in the recent past. However, one of the most interesting episodes I came across was while reading 'The Black Swan' a book by Nassim Nicholas Taleb is where he argues that there is infact a HUGE space between 'what you know' & 'what you think you know' and that's where Black Swans are created. Now what are black swans or what is the black swan theory cannot be explained by me, I would suggest you to go ahead, buy a copy for yourself and read the book for understanding the same. Here, I would share my experience about the statement mentioned earlier.

While performing my regular (boring) tasks at work, I usually come up with wild ideas of doing stuff (in pursuit of doing something new) which is seemingly impossible for me at that moment(for such, a relative example would be a car driver assuming that flying an aeroplane would be more or less the same). Now, as the idea starts shaping up and as I try to cultivate the same, something or the other comes in between and breaks my pursuit. These thoughts put me in a fix, and believe me these fixes are BAD! The problem is not my sustainance on a subject, but later on I realize that the idea which I pursued was too common/public (not comparing it to my colleagues or so, international audience). That's its end. I ask myself, what went wrong? and every time I couldnt find an answer.

Now, after reading this book (with a lot of gratitude to the author), I have resorted to a belief that whatever we think (we the regulars ;)) is very likely to be thought by others/known by others. Thinking differently is the key to success. Now, lets pursuit that!

A message to all my readers would be to think different and not high. Thinking HIGH is NOT BAD. But if all these thoughts turn out to be impractical they themselves turn out to be fatal for your thought process.


Hence, concluding that, the road to success does surely not permit to think what others think. Outliers are the ones who think different from the rest. 


Cheers!