Learning Does Not Necessarily Help Us Choose Wisely

To lead a life of creativity, you first have to free yourself from the need to learn. When you had to make an important choice in your life, what made you pause and feel afraid? More often than not, it was probably the idea that you didn’t “know” enough. However, just as we don’t need to learn to manipulate the biological functions needed to maintain life, we don’t need to be filled with expert knowledge to make the most important decisions in our lives.

Granted, the world we live in today is filled with myriad choices that require you to have a great amount of knowledge. Take a fund manager, for example. If you don’t know what a fund manager is, you can’t say to yourself that you want to be one. However, the important thing is not to confuse your goal with the means. Say you want to become a fund manager; can this ambition truly be your goal and the reason for your existence? In many cases, we are mistaken into thinking that the means we use is the goal itself; we eventually realize the mistake after many fruitless years of trying to fill a certain emptiness in our hearts that won’t go away no matter how “successful” we have become.

This is what I mean when I say that you don’t need expert knowledge to choose your purpose in life. Expert, specific knowledge is necessary when you have already chosen your goal and are looking for the best method to achieve it. It is not necessary for you to choose your life’s goal. When someone asks you what your goal in life is, what would you reply? That you don’t know yet? That you don’t have enough information to decide? That you need more data to compute? That you need to learn more?

But Ilchi Lee already know that learning does not necessarily make it easier to make the most important choices in your life. Do we need that much knowledge to live “right?” Learning can be an excuse for putting off your choice. No matter how much relevant information you have learned or how much knowledge you have attained, you will always feel a conflict and a modicum of self-doubt at the moment of making a choice. Ultimately, it isn’t your knowledge that makes the choice; it is your will and character.

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