Arm yourself with specific knowledge

Arm yourself with specific knowledge, accountability, and leverage.

Specific knowledge can't be taught, but can be learned.

Knowledge that gets you paid.

Identify your strengths and apply them to what you care about. Iterate at the edge of knowledge.

Building it will feel like play to you, but look like work to others.

Specific knowledge can be taught through apprenticeships or self-taught.

It's high paying because society has not yet figured out how to teach or automate it.

It tends to be creative or technical.

Build specific knowledge where you are “a natural.”

Specific knowledge is often highly technical or creative. It cannot be outsourced or automated.

Equip yourself. I believe that knowledge is power. If you want to engage power and authority you need to equip yourself with knowledge. Don’t be ashamed of the knowledge that lives in your body. Equip yourself with book knowledge but also embodied knowledge.

Specific knowledge is found much more by pursuing your innate talents, your genuine curiosity, and your passion. It’s not by going to school for whatever is the hottest job; it’s not by going into whatever field investors say is the hottest.

Specific knowledge cannot be taught, but it can be learned.

A society’s stock of knowledge is structured in terms of what is generally relevant and what is relevant only to specific roles… the social distribution of knowledge entails a dichotomization in terms of general and role-specific relevance… because of the division of labor, role-specific knowledge will grow at a faster rate than generally relevant and accessible knowledge… The increasing number and complexity of [the resulting] sub universes [of specialized knowledge] make them increasingly inaccessible to outsiders.

focus your attention and effort to acquire the necessary knowledge, know-how and motivation to become an expert and achieve your specific desired objective.

Give her skills that would enable her to empower herself, not just acquiring the knowledge. Let the knowledge be there and the knowledge not just the theoretical aspect but let’s have the practical aspect.

Our weapon is our knowledge. But remember, it may be a knowledge we may not know that we possess.

There is nothing exclusive in the knowledge save as every science is exclusive; those who are born with a faculty, and train the faculty, can master its appropriate science, while those who start in life without any faculty, or those who do not develop it if they have it, must be content to remain in ignorance. These are the rules everywhere of the obtaining of knowledge, in Occultism as in every other science. p. 129

How much self-knowledge is limited to presenting other people with a more precise and exact description of our weaknesses.