A lot of us know a lot of things.
We've read a lot of books and when we're asked to speak on certain issues we talk so convincingly that it seems to the listeners that the issue is already part of us.
But very few of us apply our knowledge.
If we don't apply our knowledge to things in life, our professed knowledge becomes useless to us and to the people around us. In fact, it would have been better that we never had the knowledge in the first place.
Although it is frequently stated that knowledge is power, the real power lies in the application of the knowledge.
Knowledge in itself is just potential power and not power itself.
Imagine this sceneraio: We meet someone who's gone through medical school. However, when a dear relative falls ill, he's not able to administer medication to the person. He becomes inexplicably paralyzed and assumes the posture of a spectator. This relative may die and our good doctor's knowledge of medicine would have proved worthless to his family.
So although you may have the knowledge of what to do, but because you do not apply it, it becomes useless to you and to the one that needs it. And it wouldn't have made any difference if you didn't know it in the first place!.
Do remember, no matter how many books you may have read or how much information you have concerning anything, if you don't apply the knowledge in times of need or to the benefit of yourself and/or others, you would have been better of not knowing it at all!
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