Three Types of Education

The Daily Wake Up Micro-Podcast

Episode 688 - Three Types of Education. #knowTroy #education #learningstyles #DWUpodcast

Learning comes at three levels:  

• We know what we know
  1. I know I need to pay bills, provide for my family, go to work, etc.
• We know that we don’t know
  1. I know that I don’t know how to fly a plane or make a movie – which is something I will be doing in my future.
• We don’t know what we don’t know
  1. These are the things we are blind to.

“The unconscious parts of the mind are most of the mind,” David Brooks writes in his book, The Social Animal, “[They have] a processing capacity 200,000 times greater than the conscious mind.” Tragically, this interior domain remains largely terra incognita, a vast unexplored territory full of resources and potentials we haven’t begun to tame or to tap.

According to Brooks, this results in people overestimating their ability to understand why they are making certain decisions. They make up stories to explain their own actions even when they have no clue about what is happening inside.

Sound familiar to the two sides of an argument that we have today. If we can all admit that we don’t know what we don’t know, we can start to look at facts to any argument with the purpose to understand instead of fighting about it.