A speaker discusses the 'illusion of knowledge'—how easy access to information creates overconfidence, leading people to believe partial familiarity equals mastery. The speaker references 'Circle of Wealth' and 'infinite banking' as influences and contrasts humble lifelong learners with closed-minded individuals who stop growing. The passage links financial literacy (becoming your own banker) with ongoing pursuit of wisdom.
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I think there can be the illusion of knowledge in the world that we have such ready information at our fingertips and we think that I've heard something about this before means I know it. And I think we delude ourselves to thinking that we know way more than we actually know. Actually, I'll credit this back to Circle of wealth was one of the tools that I used as I was learning about infinite banking and just about finance in general. They talked about this idea that there's this huge vast knowledge in the world and the amount that each one of us actually knows is probably maybe 2% of all of the knowledge in the world. So you see the humility of those who have pursued knowledge and pursued wisdom over time because they're continuing to seek knowledge and seek wisdom because they realize that they know so little in comparison to how much wisdom is accessible. Yet it's the closed minded person who has a scarcity mindset, who thinks, I heard one thing, I know everything, I don't need to continue growing and continue pursuing this information. And it is amazing how rich just becoming your own banker is and how you can study it over and over and continue to grow your knowledge and your wisdom.