What I Know or What I feel ..... which gets better

We generally know and this knowing comes through observation, inquiry, or information. Often just knowing fails you as it is impossible for a man to learn if he thinks he already knows. It is said the only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

We meet many who claim to know it all only to meet our annoyance as we see nothing about their knowing in their actions. There are exceptions who say it they do not know it all, but smart to know where to find it when required. The knowing of something is all about what you are told, which can make good conversation and often conversations tend to be useless and helpless.

When someone feels something, there's usually action to follow. We tend to act based on what we feel, rather than what we're told. Knowledge can be forgotten, overruled or fades away but our feelings last longer than knowledge. Feeling tends to stick, that is why we remember tear-jerking scenes in movies and intimate moments between people are the cornerstones of our memories. Ever wondered why we remember how we felt during a long speech, long after we’ve forgotten most of the content.

Knowing is largely an intellectual phenomenon. You know your colleagues all have the best intent for the company. But, in moments where you feel their intent, you have a different level of confidence. You will support them much more intelligently and effectively, thinking bigger and seeing further a collective path. Knowing is the left part of the brain. Feeling is the right part of the brain. When we know but we don't feel something, we don't fully trust it, we don't have confidence in it and we don't find joy in it.

The ability to feel emotion is a significant part of the human experience and we are all driven far more by it than most of us would like to admit playing a pivotal role in our decision-making and even influence our behaviors.

When we read leadership books, we see the ideas or strive to know the ideas but we do not commit to feeling the ideas. Would you somehow agree now, people choose their actions, their behaviors based on their feelings and not what they know?

Every post brings in a share of my readers response which too is much learning. One such response put me to research the Knowing and Feeling impact. The reason for this post is to ask all you well-meaning human beings, if you are in a position leading a team, group, students replace the effort to Teach people to know with ways they get to Feel.

Often teachings are limited to academic syllabus or product and services in organization/institutions, can anything more be done. DSC Learning’s has covered over 140 posts on various aspects that are feed for the soul, expressing how it is being with the creator, discipline for the mind and the need to feel at heart to bring forward actions that mean well for themselves, others and the environment. We could select topics of your choice and send to your team on a weekly basis.

Why this initiative? Well with what one knows it helps make a living, with what one feels it will help make a life…….

Gift some thoughts as no matter whom the book of life is as if something were left between pages every time you read it.