Una Luna – || Vicolo

In this theatrical square of life, we’ve clearly misunderstood, misinterpreted and mis-cooked the art, the philosophy and the need for cluelessness or in other words ‘not-so-well-informed-curiosity’.

We fear to be found out that we don’t know stuffs, that we are not well-equipped
yet to solving all kinds of problems.

We mistake inadequacy, indecisiveness, insufficiency, incompetence for a weakness, for a disgrace, and for a hard-to-swallow shame.

And worst of all, in many occasions, we clearly mistake in making a dope-distinction between knowledge and the illusion of one. Because, more often than not — like our teenage brain, us; We genuinely, pretense over ‘I know everything’ or ‘ I’ve figured it out’ or sorts kinds of endemic.

But, there’s this thing called “The Wisdom Paradox”.

Which says the more we exercise on the ideas, facts, opinions, thoughts, presuppositions and prejudices, or say the more we dive into the real, deep depth of the matter — the more we are exposed to own our inefficiencies and the more we find our self serving biases run amuck,.. run blind, run naked.

Simply put, curiosity to explore more of known, unbeknownst territories; It is how we grow humble wings, and it is how we become less and less ignorant and more and more self-aware and counterproductive and listening kinds.

Even three of the scantiest, brightest folks of yesteryear advocates this paradox in the simplest manner possible:

 

“Some people are more certain of everything than I am of anything.” – Robert Rubin

 

“The more I know, the more i know i don’t know.” – Aristotle

 

“The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don’t know.” – Einstein bro.

 

I don’t know is not a weakness. Not a disease! It’s an opportunity. And, perhaps It’s a good problem to have.

And so, I will bask in my incompetence, in my deficiencies, in my ineptitude, knowing full well that, with every book I read, speech I hear, conversation I engage in, exposure to my own ignorance grows. And I learn. I act. I relearn. I improvise.

Again, I Don’t know unless driven by ignorance is a good head start for us all.