To me, the reason that people say that knowledge's power is for one simple reason.

As you accumulate it, it gives you the ability to do more.

You literally become capable of more.

You're able to bring knowledge into your life to literally transform what you're able

to manifest in the world.

And at the end of the day, the very definition of power for me is the ability to close

your eyes and imagine a world and then open them and make that world come true.

But the thing that holds people back is their own ego.

And as Epictetus said, one cannot learn what they think they already know.

And that's the danger.

That's how people get themselves into trouble.

It feels so good to know something.

It feels like as you're collecting this information and becoming more powerful, you just want

to focus on that.

You want to sink into that feeling.

You want to see yourself in the mirror as somebody capable of somebody who's capable of more

today than they were yesterday.

And in that truth, because you are, but in that truth is a trap.

And the trap is to begin to feel that you know something, to think of yourself as a master.

That's why as Socrates said, the only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Because that's how you're going to get really powerful.

That's how you're going to open yourself up to that knowledge to bring it into your world.

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