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With too much knowledge overgrowth the mind can't really burn a path from end to end. The 'nerd' ends up collecting different types of weapons instead of learning how to use them.

He sits there presiding over a billion dollars worth of 'guns' but wonders why he is not as powerful as an army. It's the general who inspires others to pick up their guns and use them who really make change in the world (for better or for worse)

Someone who only knows a bunch of trivia or seems to collect knowledge only for the sake of it is like a gun nut owning multiple assault rifles and other weapons. You're impressed and intimidated but also think the guy is somewhat crazy.

He mistakes the owning to the using. He thinks he grows powerful but only grows more burdened and encumbered by all the tools he has to learn and keep track of.

With too much knowledge you're like a chef with 100 different tools. A specialized apple peeler, pineapple corer, etc... You spend so much time maintaining, cleaning, keeping track of your tools life becomes work.

Unlike the chef who does everything with just a knife. He overall has a 'holistic' feel to his actions unlike the other chef whose 'flow' is broken by the introduction of different tools in the workflow.

The trope of some inefficient but traditional way of doing things producing something superior has this truth to it. Japanese culture has a ton of this.

It's true because adhering to a script/tradition allows you to tap into the soul of the world. It's false because going through the motions of a story doesn't necessarily bring the story to life. Sometimes that same story exists in the now as a new form of technology.

Life behaves in a circular way where we're constantly discovering old truth precisely because the present and future can only be forged via a chain of truths rediscovering itself in the future.

This is why going into the future is like going into the past. It's why we think our ancestors may have had some secret "magic" energy that is just as potent as the scientific energy from out sci-fi universes.

Back on topic... Something becomes 'whole' when it becomes 'bridged'. and things can only become bridged once plank at a time.

You have to go plank from plank. You can't just skip the difficult parts. That creates 'false' wholeness. E.g. true understanding leads to loving tolerance but tolerance with only partial understanding leads to build up of resentment.

This 'loving' tolerance is in a way what we all seek. Like in "Friends". We want a group of friends where we can show our strengths and weaknesses, have the biggest fights etc,.. yet still remain a family.

Random interjection: Think of a Kung Fu master beating someone armed with a sword, a gun, and 3 times bigger. That's an example of "real body" beating "false body". The mental equivalent of that non-realistic trope is the Law of Attraction.

It's the application of consciousness in such a skillful manner that it seems magical. Just like a kung fu master magically defeat great threats. Now... kung fu movies are mostly fake... but kung fu masters are actually real.

The 'real' equivalent of people having a non-exaggerated Law of Attraction ability is a form of infectious optimism. These people exist, you've probably met them.

Similar to Kung Fu masters outwardly looking weak and frail these people often outwardly seem naive or fake. But their ability to get things to happen can seem magical.

Building up your 'consciousness' muscle improves your optimism because the world is less scary to you. We're intimidated by big strong people in close quarters despite knowing that it's not a physical fight.

Being physically strong gives you a charisma and confidence around other people not because you're thinking "Oh yea I could beat any of these people up" but because it's a relief from the pressure from others.

Being 'consciously' strong means being disciplined. You know that even for something really difficult you can apply sustained effort of consciousness longer than most people. Even if you're not talented at it you know that you can apply 10 times the effort most people do.

Having something like 6 pack abs if a signal of this. It's rare enough that it's a high level signal of ability to achieve things. This signal is weakest for high school jocks but is every high signal for older men.

Being able to taste the differences in expensive wine is also a signal of this. Most people cannot applied micro-level consciousness to the extent of being able to tell apart wines. Peasants are defined by their lack of ability to be subtle.

So to summarize... learning things is like architecting a bridge for different types of terrain and gaps. Different tasks are different gaps. Knowledge is a 'solution' from an external source that teaches you how to pass a specific gap.

Knowledge is so useful because it can come in the form of "mental models". A mental model is like having gpt-3 embody a form of intelligence for you. You have have it spit our random conclusions for you to review.

It's like having a robot that can built bridges and also has a database of ALL solutions to ALL known gaps in ALL of history. Why learn any architecture when these robots can do everything? Why get a 6 pack of abs when we have guns?

Despite all our knowledge and technology expanding outwards we will always have an edge. At the outside edge of knowledge we have those who learned architecture from the bottom up. Those who 'understand' why the robot exists rather than those who merely use the robot.

At the outside edge of technology is the realm of the human body. Those who fully understand what their body is truly capable of being and feeling.. and those who don't.

Monks in a way are super jocks that explore every limitations of the human body (just not sexual) The 'supreme' (cult) guru being with a harem is similar to the head jock/quarterback and cheerleaders yes?

Too many random thoughts here...will try to wrap up thread in one general gist: Literally Everything™ is application of consciousness. Increase the volume and 'sharpness' of our consciousness can massively increase our life vibrancy.

Working out helps increase the volume of consciousness you can apply. Learning new knowledge, combining them in different ways, etc... helps you to sharpen and define your consciousness into needle like potency. You can break down even the most dense and difficult tasks.