498. Too Much Information

A wealth of information creates poverty of attention. Balance your information receiving time (lectures, reading etc.) with an equal amount of time dedicated to Meditation and Creative Thinking. Meditation will restore attention. Learn to develop selective active ignorance by deliberately ignoring information that is :

(a) Irrelevant
(b) Unimportant
(c) Un-actionable

The same goes for interruptions.

"There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant." -Ralph Waldo Emerson.

332. Keep your own "Ultra" Secret

When you have a source of information on your enemy, do not give the game away. Do not let them know that you know or how you know what you know. Treat all your sources of intelligence the way the British treated Ultra during World War 2. They never acted on a piece of information obtained through Ultra unless that information could have been obtained by less secret means. Don't compromise your sources or your spies.

209. Important Distinctions Regarding Knowledge

There is a process and an order to the collection and use of knowledge.
1. Data is collected.
2. Data is organised to become Information.
3. Information acted upon becomes Knowledge.
4. Knowledge tried and tested becomes Wisdom.
5. Wisdom applied practically becomes Power.

Power is defined as the ability to act. This is what is meant when people say "Knowledge is Power" though they rarely understand the process.

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