{"id":726,"date":"2011-03-26T11:35:57","date_gmt":"2011-03-26T11:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saasoft.com\/blog\/?p=726"},"modified":"2011-03-26T11:35:57","modified_gmt":"2011-03-26T11:35:57","slug":"ignorance-mining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hcse.blog\/?p=726","title":{"rendered":"Ignorance Mining"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Ignorance means “not knowing” and as the saying goes “Ignorance is bliss” because we do not\u00a0worry about what we do not know about.\u00a0 Or do\u00a0we?<\/p>\n

We are not totally ignorant\u00a0– because we know that there are “unknowns” that would be of value to us. This knowledge\u00a0creates an anxiety that\u00a0we are very good at pushing out of\u00a0awareness and\u00a0despite the denial\u00a0the unconscious\u00a0feeling remains and it is emotionally corrosive. Repressed anxiety leads to the counter-productive\u00a0behaviour of self-deception and\u00a0then to self-justification – both of which are potent impedients to improvement.<\/p>\n

We\u00a0habitually, continuously and unconsciously discount the importance of what\u00a0we do not know\u00a0and in so doing we\u00a0create\u00a0internal emotional dissonance.\u00a0\u00a0Our inner conflict\u00a0drives external\u00a0discounting behaviour and\u00a0the\u00a0inevitable\u00a0toxic cultural consequence – Erosion of Trust.\u00a0 Our inner conflict\u00a0also drives\u00a0internal discounting behaviour and the inevitable toxic emotional consequence –\u00a0Erosion of\u00a0\u00a0Confidence. This is\u00a0the toxic emotional waste swamp that we create for ourselves and is the slippery slope that leads down to frustration, depression, cynicism and apathy. Ignorance \u00a0leads to anxiety and fear –\u00a0and because we have conditioned\u00a0ourselves to\u00a0back away from fear we reflexly back away from ignorance\u00a0and we end up trading\u00a0fear for frustration. We do it to ourselves first and then we do it to others.<\/p>\n

The antidote is counter-intuitive: it is\u00a0to actively\u00a0acknowledge\u00a0and embrace our ignorance\u00a0– and to do that we have to deliberately expose\u00a0our own ignorance\u00a0because we are very, very good at\u00a0burying it\u00a0from conscious view under a mountain\u00a0of\u00a0self-deception\u00a0and\u00a0self-justification.\u00a0\u00a0We need to become Ignorace Miners.<\/p>\n

The opposite of ignorance if knowledge and the good news is that we\u00a0only need to scratch the surface to find knowledge nuggets – not huge ones perhaps – but plentiful.\u00a0A bag of\u00a0small knowledge nuggets is as\u00a0valuable as an ingot of insight!<\/p>\n

Knowledge nuggets\u00a0are\u00a0durable because they\u00a0withstand\u00a0cultural erosion but\u00a0they can get washed away in\u00a0the flood of toxic emotional waste\u00a0and they can get\u00a0buried under layers of cynical-resentful-arrogant-pessimism (CRAP).\u00a0 These knowledge nuggests\u00a0need to be\u00a0re-gathered, re-freshed and re-cycled – and it\u00a0is an endlessly exciting and\u00a0energising experience.<\/p>\n

So, when we\u00a0are feeling fustrated, demotivated and depressed we just need to give ourselves a break and\u00a0indulge\u00a0in a bit of\u00a0gentle\u00a0ignorance mining – and when we do\u00a0we\u00a0will start to\u00a0feel better immediately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ignorance means “not knowing” and as the saying goes “Ignorance is bliss” because we do not\u00a0worry about what we do not know about.\u00a0 Or do\u00a0we? We are not totally ignorant\u00a0– because we know that there are “unknowns” that would be of value to us. This knowledge\u00a0creates an anxiety that\u00a0we are very good at pushing out … <\/p>\n

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