UNDERSTANDING EQUALS WHAT?

UNDERSTANDING EQUALS WHAT?

Wisdom, knowledge and understanding we all ask for but are we really aware of what we seek? And when we get it, are we aware of what we’ve gotten?... Let’s look at this in a way simpler form. 😉👍

 

♧ Knowledge=> The Flour

♧ Understanding=> ?

♧ Wisdom=> The Bread

 

If knowledge is the flour, wisdom actually has to be the bread, but then, what do we have to call understanding? Let’s look at these instances:

You get to meet a person, make friends with this person but still on acquaintance, now that’s knowledge. At this stage, you’re only knowledgeable about this person and know nothing else.

You make efforts to knowing this person better than you do at the moment in forms of test, paying close attention to words and actions from this person. You come to the realization of the good and bad sides of this friend of yours and figure out the best way to reserve this friend, putting our human sides aside. This is you trying to make the best out of your Jew friend- We can call this understanding.

Knowing and understanding your new friend to a very good extent, you are so used to each other and know how to live and cope with each other and even when our human sides try having the best part of the friendship, you know how to maneuver these times and periods without issues in the friendship- This is you both now been able to live with each other, manage you both goods and bad. We can call it wisdom in the friendship.

 

Or let’s look at:

Being taught a topic like word problems in Mathematics in school. You feel you understand the topic because of the examples you were given by the teacher in class but after being given class assessment, you notice the difference in the simplicity of the topic, unknown to you that you just have the KNOWLEDGE and NOT UNDERSTANDING of the topic. Your understanding of this topic would give you the wisdom to be able to solve any questions from word problems.

 

Or maybe looking at it from this angle would give us a better UNDERSTANDING 🌝

 

You’re presented with an issue to settle. This issue appears to involve two women arguing about a baby, each claiming the baby to be hers. You’re only knowledgeable of this case, without paying attention to any of the women at this point. Getting to know the cause of such quarrel over a baby and it is also brought to your knowledge that one of them had lost her baby overnight but none of them would let go of the other child still alive. A close look at these women and you begin to see and understand that just one of them is being truthful about being the mother of the child. This understanding sheds more light on the issue and this same understanding gives you an idea on how to solve the situation WISELY. You order the seizing of the child but then, while one of the women is all supportive of the idea, the other stays sad and pleads to get the child back. It dawns on you that the latter woman has to be the mother of the baby and she is handed the baby… Your KNOWLEDGE but without the UNDERSTANDING of the situation couldn’t have given you the WISDOM of such ground.

 

We should understand the relationship between these three: wisdom, knowledge and understanding; that of course they are really interconnected, but understanding their individual distinctions is what would help us in scaling through our life journey.

 

Knowledge as The Flour: knowledge, unarguably should be the first of these three. Wisdom and understanding are built upon knowledge. Knowledge is raw and the initial of whatever the case may be. You automatically become knowledgeable first! Of course we all know flour is the bedrock of every food or snack made in the form of a dough😉

 

Understanding as ?: just as without knowledge none of the three stands, it’s almost the same with understanding. Understanding has to be attained for wisdom to be accomplished. It serves as the bridge connecting knowledge and wisdom. But in our baking ingredients in this article, why don't we call understanding “The Yeast”? This understanding is what sheds light on the underlying truth on whatever case it may be. Understanding whatever is what brings knowledge together with wisdom…in the sense that I can’t just get to know you and immediately know how to cope with you without making out some time to get to see who you really are.

 

Wisdom as The Bread: Wisdom has to be the final in the three we often ask for. It is the result of knowledge and understanding. Bread as we all know, is the result of dough alongside all other ingredients required for making bread and we will all agree with me that without the flour and yeast, it is almost impossible to produce an actual bread

 

 

So… What do we have to say to this?... 😉