Praising the true value of knowledge sharing

I always saw knowledge as my trustworthy and reliable partner, helping me become what I am today. Knowledge shaped my bold actions, educated arguments, and outspoken standings. Swiss movie director Jean-Luc Godard once said: “It’s not where you take things from – it’s where you take them to.” For me, knowledge is not about exclusively grasping the relevant information from its originating sources but also from collecting the outcomes of disseminating and discussing it further down the line with other professionals.
Lately, I witness how more and more people enroll in the knowledge-sharing process, using various media platforms for introducing worthy subjects. Nevertheless, for maximizing the added value of distributing and grasping knowledge in this fast pace growing universe, I believe that we all should have in mind a few things:
Avoid “second-hand-RSS-feed-type” knowledge sharing
Have you received lately an article from a person within your professional or personal network, a piece of relevant information that is forwarded with a monosyllabic/acronym comment or no comment at all? I believe that we should avoid doing this and I will explain why.

I have compared many times knowledge sharing with the experience of enjoying an exquisite/exclusive meal recommended by a gourmand friend. A “mouth-watering” increased eagerness of eating that particular meal just by listening to the friend. His fascinating arguments put forward in describing it, are matched only by the “real-time” physical joy expressed by his face.
Now, imagine the same person pushing emotionless the plate toward you while just saying: “Eat it!!” Sounds a little bit uncomfortable and unpleasant to the same extent. And has nothing to do with the meal’s qualities. Or with that person’s undeniable expertise. It is just the wrong way of introducing it. It is like a “prophet-truth” smack in the face rather than a guide to own pace of discovery.
If the sense-sharing experience is the one that makes the shared information memorable for ourselves and others, does it worth changing as well our way of enrolling in the knowledge-sharing process? And if “yes” is the answer, why do people continue doing it in the wrong way? Not knowing all possible answers, I will try to discuss two of them.
– Answer 1: People not having time to write their views on the shared article. Not acceptable if we truly believe in the process. We should all enjoy the synergies brought up by the knowledge-sharing process. Rather than being limited only to intrinsic information sharing, knowledge sharing is about the interconnected–reality understanding obtained through collective discussion and interpretation. We should not allow a lack of time to stop us from maximizing the true benefits of the sharing process.

– Answer 2: Not wanting own comments to be perceived as “unneeded” for something that is already considered to be perfect for sharing. I disagree as well with this kind of “gentleness”, as no view is wrong or “unneeded” in a true sharing process. By introducing our views on the disseminated information, we can attract responses from audiences that help us evolve towards becoming better persons, while also not remaining captive in “single-mind” isolation.
By “opening” ourselves to others, we can benefit from a diverse range of perceptions and expertise. Different “eyeglasses” focus on the same particular reality, which rather than distorting end up offering us new, relevant perspectives. Moreover, for those respecting and trusting us, our views are relevant as well, as they are to them as important as the piece of information we are promoting.
Avoid considering only “by-the-drop” knowledge acquisition

I’ve heard lately people arguing that, due to existing limitations, they can grasp only “executive-summary” type of information, in small bites that only use simplified/plain language and not too extensive arguments.
Well, most of the information out there, if not all, can be summarized as “showing different perspectives on things or encountered realities to make our life easier and fruitful by understanding better life’s meanings”. If everything we need for maximizing our professional/personal experience could have been extracted from these 23 words only, all of us would have been already happy in our “Zen” state of mind.
Yet the truth is nowhere close to it. Over the years I’ve concluded that, in time, we reach our goals because we have the will and commitment to continuously extract our own “lessons” from others’ educated arguments/artistic storytelling. We build bridges interconnecting grasped information to our experienced realities. More than anything else, we succeed because we are “patient” in spending time reviewing one’s views in their argumentative entirety.
The beauty of the process is that at the end, we might decide to remain attached only to a “life-changing-framework” or, an worth remembering experiment placed in a cassette in the middle of a book or, the unique emotional sense of fulfillment that only finishing the last paragraph sometimes can bring. However, none of these can be generalized nor foreseen at the beginning, by sliding the cover and looking at the number of words/pages you have to read.

I argue that “by-the-drop” self-imposed-limitation acts against the true meaning of knowledge acquiring, as risks create a vicious downward-moving spiral. I believe that to reach our goals we should fight for satisfying entirely our thirst for knowledge, rather than accepting “by-the-drop” feeding that will only limit our further actions.
For me, the true value of knowledge sharing rest in the flourished “new-concept-experiencing” environment that all benefit from. As broadcasters or recipients enrolled in the process, we have the chance to further enlarge our understanding of particular subjects. I believe that by praising the undivided “thirst” for knowledge, as one of the main drivers that made us the professionals of today, we will successfully avoid being trapped into the “fast-food-knowledge-culture” frameworks that still keep captive so many others around us.