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Ask HN: Article about things I know or don't know, anyone that has a link?
I read a very interesting post a while ago (could be 1-2 years) that was talking about the split of knowledge that everyone of us has.
Specifically:
1) things I know
2) things I think I know
3) things I know I don't know
4) things I don't know I don't know
The path to wisdom would be to decrease 2) and 4) and increase 1) and 3) :)
I cannot find it any more and there are just a few articles that have the diagram, but their content is low quality.
Anyone that knows what I'm talking about?
- dalke 12y agoI don't know the essay. The idea is called the Johari window. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johari_window http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johari_window . The size of 4) is infinite, so decreasing it would be pretty hard. And personally, it's always felt too Aristotelian for my tastes.
- aledalgrande 12y agoThanks, didn't know that! Obviously 4) is huge, but the point is at least knowing you don't know as much as possible. I thought this had been attributed to Socrates, not Aristotle ;)
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- aledalgrande 12y agoAdded that link to the post here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8807826 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8807826 Thanks
- arh68 12y agoMost Americans probably heard of this via Donald Rumsfeld, 'known unknowns' etc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiPe1OiKQuk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiPe1OiKQuk
- aledalgrande 12y agoAh yeah, I found that during my research for the post.
- jimminy 12y agoThis is an article I remember on the subject from a few years ago. http://jangosteve.com/post/380926251/no-one-knows-what-theyre-doing http://jangosteve.com/post/380926251/no-one-knows-what-theyr...