Jan 17 2021

You Know Too Much

In our Chinese life, we eat rice as our main food. Therefore, we have to keep a certain amount of rice in the barrel at home for our daily consumption.
But, if you know too much about things, your home will have empty barrel without rice.
This theory is based on that if you know too much knowledge in everything, which is of course, shallow and cannot be a practical use in our daily life to earn a living. Same as we dig a well of nine feet, which cannot produce any water. We have to dig a well very deep which will then give us water.
The world is so big and our life time is not very long. How could we learn everything from the world?
If we wish to be a successful person, we have to select a special knowledge which can help us to earn our living. Do not learn a shallow knowledge which can only be used in conversation not in deeds for a living. To this, we must make it clear that we shall be a specialist, not a generalist.