Knowledge

Knowledge is facts, information, understanding, and skills that you get through experience or education. Knowledge is gathered over time. You expand and grow as a person as you gain new knowledge. Education opens your mind to new things. As you advance a step further with education, you gain knowledge and learn what to do with it. Knowledge is a powerful tool. Knowledge contributes to development of self and society. Knowledge can be used by people to changes their lives for the better. Knowledge helps you understand yourself and others better. Knowledge opens doors to careers. Knowledge helps you in conversations with others and to get respect.

15 ways to improve your knowledge

1. Practice

Keep learning and practicing a skill and stay with it until you know it well.

2. Ask

You don't know everything so you have to keep asking questions to keep gaining knowledge.

3. Want

You can only climb up the ladder of knowledge by wanting to learn.

4. Refine

Knowledge must take a shape, when it can be put into words, or reduced to a principle so it’s up to you to work on refining what you learn.

5. Open your mind

Study things from different angles and perspectives. As you expand your knowledge, you may sometimes need to revise your opinions and the way you do things.

6. Experiment

Try something new. See what happens. Make discoveries.

7. Teach

Teach others to help you understand what your know and to pass on knowledge to others. The act of teaching will produce more knowledge in you.

8. Read

There is so much to learn from reading books, printed materials, and online.

9. Write

To know something, you should be able to write about it. Write to explain and remember.

10. Listen

By listening, you may hear something useful to you.

11. Observe

Keep your eyes open to things happening around you. Watch what helps some people or situations have success so you can follow what works. Watch what caused some people or situations to have mistakes so you can avoid them.

12. Organize

Put your information and your thoughts in order so you can effectively handle your own knowledge.

13. Define

Be able to recognize, describe, and give a definition about a thing you learn about.

14. Reason

Use logic to determine what you learn is true. Compare different points. Note similarities and differences and check them against established laws or principles.

15. Inspire

Inspire yourself and others to continue learning and gaining knowledge.

Types of knowledge

The three main categories of knowledge are personal, procedural, and propositional.

Personal knowledge is knowledge of a circumstance or fact gained through first-hand observation or experience.

Procedural knowledge is knowledge of how to do something. Someone with procedural knowledge has the skills and ability to do something.

Propositional knowledge is knowledge of fact. It is what philosophy is about and says that something is the case based on truth and justification.