MSUGANA

+ Intelligence = + Cluelessness

“I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing” -Socrates

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As the first week of the 4th semester of my undergraduate career is passing, I have come to realize that the more I learn about various subjects, the more clueless I become.  

Oh………………..and the more ‘stupid’ I feel.  

During my ‘Money & Banking’ class yesterday, for example, we learned about various aspects of the financial market that I never truly paid enough attention to before.  Some of them were more complex than others, while some could be considered as general knowledge.

General knowledge: Things that I should slap myself in the head for not knowing.

“Am I the only person in this class who has just finally learned what Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae actually are? **SLAPS SELF IN THE HEAD**” (I seriously didn’t know Fannie Mae = The Federal National Mortgage Association…RETARDED? YES..YES INDEED)  

Obviously, it is expected that a student wouldn’t take a class if they had already mastered the subject.  But……….

Learning new things -no matter how simple or complicated- often makes me think to myself, “How did I not know that?  Where has this fact been all my life?”.  

Despite the fact that I obviously gain some significant knowledge from learning something, I often feel like an ignorant little child afterwards.  

BUT the even bigger problem that comes from learning is the feeling of ‘cluelessness’ caused by the expansion of the knowledge itself.

Simply said:

The more I know, the more I realize how much I don’t know.

As you learn new theories, you realize that there are so many other things that they expand to.  It’s like the galaxy….You learn about the immense nature of the Milky Way…Only to realize the fact that it’s just an insignificant speck of dust in the universe.

If I were to apply this phenomenon in the real world…..

As a 20 year old undergraduate student, I am highly aware of the fact that many of my older peers expect me to sort of change my career or academic goals at some point.  This is because they know 20 year olds HAVE NO CLUE what they actually want to do with their lives.  And as we grow older and faced with wider options, we become…Even more clueless. 

The fact that I’m a clueless 20 year old makes me question about my sagaciousness….

As Aristotle stated:

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom”

HOW CAN I EVER BE A WISE PERSON?

I don’t even know what I’d like to do with my life!!

Considering I have become more and more doubtful about what I would like to do with my life, then…………………..I must not be so wise, after all!  

Because I KNOW NOTHING!

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But in my defense..

According to Socrates:

“I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing”

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DUDE….SAME!!! Well then…….

I am, after all, a wise person just like him!! ;-)