CHAPTER 5
SPECIALIZED KNOWLEDGE, PERSONAL EXPERIENCES OR OBSERVATIONS
The Fourth Step toward Riches
Knowledge, there are two types of knowledge, General and Specialized. General knowledge is freely available to all and can be found in the Educational Institutes and the Personal and Public Libraries around the world. It is taught in our schools and universities by teachers, lecturers and professors who have great knowledge but do not teach how to organize and use knowledge to attain riches.
Knowledge only attracts riches when it is organized and intelligently directed, through practical PLANS OF ACTION, to that DEFINITE END. Lack of understanding of this fact has been the source of confusion to millions of people who falsely believe that “knowledge is power.” It is nothing of the sort! Knowledge is only potential power. It becomes power only when, and if, it is organized into definite plans of action, and directed to a definite end.
Today’s education systems still fail to teach the “missing link” HOW TO ORGANIZE AND USE KNOWLEDGE AFTER THEY ACQUIRE IT.
Hill sights Henry Ford who was accused of being an ‘uneducated pacifist’ in the media, who proved that he was an educated man who could organize a master mind group which could answer any question posed to him at the push of a button.
It is relevant to look at the derivation of educate, the word is derived from the Latin word “educo,” meaning to educe, to draw out, to DEVELOP FROM WITHIN. An educated man is not, necessarily, one who has an abundance of general or specialized knowledge. An educated man is one who has so developed the faculties of his mind that he may acquire anything he wants, or its equivalent, without violating the rights of others. Henry Ford, Andrew Carnegie and many others, who only had limited formal education, come well within the meaning of this definition.
A further reason for the majority of people not taking full advantage of general knowledge is that in today’s education systems every child is taught this for free, thus there is little enthusiasm on the learner’s part to take full advantage of what is available.
If we turn now to Specialized Knowledge, this is not freely available and must be acquired at some cost, either through trade training, night schooling or research. Since a cost is involved much more attention is paid to that which is being taught or researched. A person with this specialized knowledge is highly sought after not necessarily by a single person or group but large corporations who wish to harness to knowledge for the attainment of riches.
Henry Ford and Andrew Carnegie would good examples of this where they used their Master Mind Group to bring about the development of the ford car and a steel corporation.
Hill sights several examples, where acquisition of specialized knowledge, due to a change of personal circumstance, has lead to the development of new business ventures. The lady who developed a business from the preparation of a plan, for her son to acquire a position, initially higher up the ladder of promotion, within the Company where he desired to work. The documentation, from this original plan, lead to a business for the marketing a personal services.
Throughout my life I have sought specialized knowledge, unfortunately, as a green I have had to have the whole picture before applying the knowledge obtained. I am learning though that this knowledge when harnessed to desires, coupled with immediate action is leading to much more being attained and moving me away from “procrastination” which has held me back in the past. I still have failures but I learn from them and move forward.
Thank you Michael and Linda for believing in me and bringing me to the realizations of what I have to do to succeed. I believe in each and every one of the Mental Cleanse Group and their weekly contributions written and verbal.
Love and blessings to you all.
Mervyn Drury
Canberra, ACT, Australia
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