You know, there are a whole lot of sayings that have been passed down from generation to generation which so many of us repeat like parrots again and again without even thinking about their actual contents. We just blurt them out whenever it seems appropriate without giving a thought to The FACT, that maybe they don't make any sense at all.
One such phrase which I perhaps heard as a child is "Ignorance Is Bliss" and another one which basically proclaims a similar message is "What you don't know won't hurt you"... Oh Yea? Believe me, what you don't know will indeed hurt you, in fact it could lead to your failure in life, and even your demise. The title of today's article is a simple, straightforward question 'Is Ignorance Really Bliss?' and the resounding answer has got to be a very loud NO it's not!
Let's give an extreme example to prove the point. Let's say that you're on vacation in a foreign land and you go for a swim in an area which is well known to the locals as having strong currents, which can carry even a very strong swimmer out to sea very quickly. If you go to swim in this area without this important knowledge, if you're just ignorant about The FACTS, it could actually cost you your life.
So ignorance is in no way bliss, and yet many continue to use this phrase without really thinking it through. Yes indeed, what you don't know will indeed hurt you and could turn out to be deadly, as the example just given points out.
Yes my friend, as I teach when dealing with the subject of communication, we all need to think before we speak. If only we did that more often, we would not get into so much trouble as we so often do by blurting out statements which are in fact really quite ridiculous in content, like "What you don't know won't hurt you" or "Ignorance is Bliss".
As we all heard many times before "Knowledge Is Power"... yes it is, and it can take you wherever you want to go in life. However, being ignorant, not acquiring as much knowledge as you can will quite definitely hold you back in life.
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