This is a YouTube video titled "Relearning and Rediscovering: The Journey from Knowing to Understanding" featuring a monologue by Beverley Simpson recorded in February 2025. Beverley reflects on the importance of recognizing when one's opinion or knowledge matters, using examples like voting and understanding carbohydrates, and explores the difference between understanding and truly knowing through personal insights.
Remember that. Has there ever been a time in your life where you thought that your opinion didn't matter, but you realize that it did? Like, I go back to the election year or last year when everyone was like, your vote. People think all the time that your vote doesn't matter, but then it does. Or times where you realized, oh, I thought everybody knew what a carbohydrate was. And then you have an experience of like, oh, well, I lived with this person for the whole of the pandemic who was over 30, and she didn't realize that a vegetable was a carbohydrate. Go and look for other people and have conversations with people who realize or recognize or don't know that what you know is true. The other thing, too, when I'm, like, going deeper in that question and I'm really sitting with that question, is I'll ask, you know, has there ever been a time where I. I heard something or I learned something in a book, and then I heard it a different way when someone else said it, or it finally landed in a different way, like when I reread the book? Because there are things that you can understand, but that's not the same thing as knowing.
