Wisdom Trap Series

This is one of the major thing that keep me living, the study and analysis on the wisdom trap that exist in all human being.

Wisdom Trap is the process of human mind deceiving their own knowledge by utilizing the inappropriate or incorrect knowledge according to the particular situation, people, or time. To make it more understandable by most people, it means you are not practicing the right thing or using your knowledge properly when you have the right knowledge.

This phenomenon is quite common in this society, and it’s not surprising that this is commonly happening on adult that has higher education level or position. This is especially common for people who expose to lots of experience and variety of knowledge.

There are so much of real life situation that demonstrate this phenomenon. One example is when people giving themselves excuses to do something wrong because others are doing it. Despite knowing others are doing wrong, knowing doing so will make them wrong too, and they might or might not realize there is always a better way, people prefer to follow the wrong path that everyone is practicing instead of being different. Such topic will be covered further later on in another post. Basically this is one of the real life example of Wisdom Trap.

Why Wisdom Trap occur?

Conceptually, human knowledge frequently has loopholes when people practice their thoughts to identify the correct reasoning for all purpose in living. One of the reasons that it happen is the lack of thinking ability to determine the best and absolute thoughts. This is especially obvious when a person is stressed out due to physical, mental, or being forced to pick a decision soon. Or simply, they refuse to use the appropriate method to construct the correct thoughts. This could be due to laziness, lack of initiative to produce the best possible thoughts, or other factors.

Precisely, human brain has their own limit in conceiving knowledge, and current education level in general only teach people about knowledge, but not how to manage and organize so that people know how to think the right thing at the right time, and with the right method. To be able to consider the right thoughts is basically the correct way of thinking, but modern world don’t really seems to be able to practice this method properly. As a result, many situations and people would be considered as “stupid” for certain people because there are always much better ways for things to happen.

Another common scenario that happens everyday without us realizing it is the lack of understanding on certain subject but we thought that we know it all, so we produce our final judgement based on the limited understanding we have. We might or might not think deeper that there might be things that we need to consider further in order to reevaluate the situation, but the moment we voice out our judgement or opinion on the subject, we might cause certain impacts on the situation without realizing the seriousness that we produce. This could occur for infinite amount of times and we might never learn our mistake, because we couldn’t even understand that the impact due to our lack of understanding in this careless mistake. .

One of the common subject that we would face frequently is dealing with other drivers on the road when we drive. When a vehicle make a sudden quick turn to the front of us without signal, we usually thought of them as rude or road bully. When having bad mood, we might judge further that the particular driver is probably a certain race that does not receive good education and he/she has all sort of problems in terms of attitude and personality. This is what I mean by the lack of understanding on a subject and judge according to our limited understanding.

While not all type of wisdom trap lead to anger and frustration, and causes continuous practice of incorrect mindset that judge without understand things better, the major problem in wisdom trap is serving as an obstacle for a person to revise their own thinking and to be willing to seek further knowledge to understand and think if they can practice better ways to think, and finally, to truly understand the impact of producing the wrong thoughts in the long run and avoid that.

Purpose of Wisdom Trap Series

The purpose of topics under wisdom trap is to identify list of mindset that we might easily think wrongly without realizing it, or we realize that but without proper understanding on the impact and consequences, we might think on the wrong way again in the future. On the other words, we want to explore new thoughts in the conventional way of thinking and reconsider things that we could think better and to think in another new angle in order to figure out how to see things in better way.

Improving your thinking ability allow yourself to widen your knowledge as you willing to explore additional idea and knowledge. You would eventually think things differently and even much better in certain subjects when you are able to consider one thing in different angle and produce solution and thoughts, you would be able to avoid as much fallacies as possible.