No matter how smart you are, if you don’t exchange values, you’ll starve to death. For one thing, being self-sufficient enables survival, but self-sufficiency is only possible if you have your own assets and can borrow from others. However, even with existing assets, one can only survive through minimal labor and effort, which means engaging in productive activities. Thus, having great intelligence and applying that intelligence to productive activities are two different things. Even if you aren’t brilliant, you can survive if you are productive. It’s essential to identify the productive activities in which I excel and those where I need improvement. If I understand that, I must act without looking back. - Joseph’s “just my thoughts”
Knowing the effect means genuinely understanding it. You don’t honestly know just because you comprehend the definition and meaning. We only know when we recognize the effect it has in a specific context, how it influences that context, and what impact it creates, including any aftereffects. Therefore, there are things I am unaware of, so I cannot claim to know everything. Let’s not confuse partial knowledge with complete understanding . - Joseph’s “just my thoughts”