Perfect your knowledge

I know that nothing is perfect, except heavenly powers. But let us for a moment assume that some of the things we do can become perfect or near perfect. Then, your knowledge should be placed in the basket of the things you need to make perfect. The case for making your knowledge perfect is simple. The world out there is so competitive and as time goes by, the economy is becoming knowledge-based. Those who know a lot are excelling and those who know little are struggling. Knowledge itself is fast changing. So there is need to keep on learning.

Today, much of what you do to excel depends on what you know. For great jobs, you will always be required to demonstrate how much knowledge and skills you have compared to other candidates competing for the same job. This means that if you perfect your knowledge ahead of the time and a need arises to stand out in your knowledge, you can easily excel. Perfect your knowledge now before you face pressure to prove that you are the best.

Secondly, when you know your work very well, you enjoy doing it. On the contrary, when you know little about your job, working becomes a nightmare. Who likes doing things that are a ‘nightmare’ to him or her? Of course, you want to do things you enjoy and so, the case for perfecting your knowledge in order to enjoy what you do is also clear.

Thirdly, when you perfect your job, it becomes easy to do it. You no longer struggle to get things done. You no longer have to spend long days and nights to do things that experts can do in hours or even minutes. Once you know your job well, you become so efficient that your delivery becomes almost effortless. And, that should be the ultimate desire of everyone.

Have you observed that when you change jobs, at first, you spend much time doing things that do not take all that long? But, as time goes by, you reach a point when the same things take little time to be done. It makes sense, therefore, that at the beginning, you should spend a lot of time not just doing new tasks but also actively learning. But with time, everything becomes simple and enjoyable.

But the problem is that many of us easily feel comfortable with our present level of knowledge. What compounds this problem is the fact that many people around us do not know much. And so, it does not take a lot of effort or time to know more than peers around us. We need to raise the bar of knowledge benchmarks. Look beyond the peers around you to get big role models that will truly inspire you to know a lot more.

The second problem is that we somehow think that knowledge is static. We believe that if I knew a lot five or 10 years ago, then as long as I remember those things then I am knowledgeable. But this is not correct because knowledge is changing every day. We need to keep on learning the new things and refreshing our knowledge. Good luck!