Understanding is an art and not everyone is an artist.

 

Understanding is an art and not everyone is an artist.

It is good and incidentally several years back Aldous Huxley wrote a wonderful but long essay on this topic ‘Knowledge and Understanding’ and surprisingly one may find a  pdf of half the essay in Sri Ramankrishna Mission site.

Knowledge, Information, Thoughts, Ideas and Teachings are ingredients,  

Understanding is making them into a tasty, cooked food,

Grasping and Interpretations are the utensils used for cooking,  

Learning is the process of cooking tasty, easily digestible, nutritious food.

How to grasp any subject or issue, then understand it and articulate it?

 

 

First, observe anything or anyone as it is or as they are and visualize and conceptualize through a polyptych of frames of reference taking into consideration the inherent attributes and contextual relevance.

Second, after the above fundamental process is in place proceed further without any restrictions imposed by blind beliefs, confirmation biases, dogmatic doctrines, fettering faiths, ideological impediments etc

 

Third, use verbal articulation which is a mere tool or technique that conveys matters.

But there must be a constant deliberate conscious awareness running in the background of the mind that the process of articulation must not hurt the sensitivities of others at all or at least as much as possible.

Focus must be on the important crux of the issues.

Of course one may take the artistic and creative liberty to aesthetically decorate the articulation with linguistic nuances.

However, careful we may be it is difficult to please or ​to satisfy all.

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