Knowledge Gain

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I like the statement from John Maxwell I found in Tim Sanders’ Love is the Killer App: “You only gain knowledge from two sources: the people you know and the books you read.”

How true this is. We get real substantive and life-giving information from our learnings and our networks. Charlie Jones sated, “The only difference from where you are right now, and where you’ll be one year from now, are the books you read and the people you meet.”

Think about the economics of a knowledge economy. Wikipedia makes the following assertion:

“The economics is not of scarcity, but rather of abundance. Unlike most resources that deplete when used, information and knowledge can be shared, and actually grow through application.”

Isn’t that neat? The more you give the more valuable you can become. It is not the old economy of scarcity. How can you create more value for yourself? How about by giving your knowledge. Broaden your network. Grow.