Hello everyone
What a great site Heathypages is and I'm not sure if I've put this in the appropriate place but I feel abit stupid and silly of what I'm about too say lol 🙁 I feel I'm not that knowledgeable when it comes too life in general?
I just feel I don't know much about things, ie. people would talk too me about certain things ie. countries, history, general topics in life maybe and I just feel abit stupid as I never really know what there talking about.
Is there any good websites which would learn me stuff ie different countries, history etc. Maybe just some basic stuff to start with! It's embarrasing when ones are talking about these different things and I don't know what there talking about. Hope I'm making sense. Just wish I was that bit smarter really!
Gemma
Welcomehere Jemma!
Much stuff and non sense, useless information passes as Knowledge these days. History/general knowledge, who is who, what is happening on political/ financial front who cares? I am sure you have a sense of general direction of things. That is all one needs
I think you are very smart already to keep all the trash out of your head rather than stuffing it with pseudo knowledge. Personally I would say stay that way.
Keeping up with Joneses...whiles Joneses keep up with Smiths...Smiths with Mathews...
it is an endless chain of keeping up with others. Others are completely lost...following them, there is a danger of getting completely lost!
Knowledge is not wisdom. It is canouflaged as that but it is a poor substitute for living. Feeling of inadequacy is not yours it comes from a warped society obsessed with information, 90% of it trivial.
Just do and investigate only that make your heart sing...you willl be amazed how little info is needed to be happy. But do it for you not for fitting in, not for looking smart to others. Looks like you are happy heart, stay that way. What is wrong with that!
love
You sound like what you know is not enough
In England we had a woman who admitted the same
She would go out with people who made her feel stupid
So she took to having a dictionary in her handbag
When a conversation went in a direction that lost her
She went to the ladies room and looked in the dictionary
Knowing that some conversations lose you and leave you lost
Is the first step to resolving the problem, the next is solving this
If people lose you in a conversation, write down what you struggled with
Then look it up at your convenience later when you have the time
Little by little your knowledge base will grow and you will learn something new each day
[url]Lorraine Chase - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/url]
She has managed and grown in many ways
I am guessing you enjoy watching TV? Instead of watching whatever you normally watch, dedicate 25% or even 50% of that time to watching news channels. Also, just browse the likes of [url]BBC News - Home[/url] and sniff around anything that sounds interesting to you. An hour a day will have you absorbing a lot of info. You could pick one article per subject (see the black menu bar near the top).
But remember, being smart and being knowledgeable are two different things. Intelligence is the ability to analyse knowledge.
Thanks everyone for the replies 🙂 Alot of helpful stuff there so thanks to one and all. I can just recall a situation recently when one's were talking about different countries and here's me thinking I haven't even a clue where they are etc. So maybe a little geography lesson needed lol I'm sure I'll find that online somewhere. Ah I felt so stupid after the conversation, hence not getting involved.
Thanks again everyone for your input and yes I watch a little TV Darren, so more News Channels it is, great website link by the way 🙂
Hi Jemma
In our family there has been a tradition to have a big fat dictionary, a world atlas, a historical synopsis, wildlife dictionary and an encyclopaedia. When anyone didn't know about or the answer to something we'd just look it up.
Now however there is a massive general knowledge resource online - accessed by google, ask jeeves, etc. I still use the dictionary and the atlas regularly but find so very much more info on the web.
Fun way to learn where places are: [url]GeoGuessr - Let's explore the world![/url]
While I agree that you have probably underestimated how much you know already, I think you have probably also overestimated what everyone else knows.
The BBC has already been mentioned. I'd add to that The Guardian ( here ).
You can google (using the word as a common verb here, despite Google's insistance that it shouldn't be!) almost anything. Check two or three sites and you can get a reasonable overview of differing opinions.
Be selective and aware - for example, as an historical overview of the country you could look at this - so long as you are aware that where it says "A History of Britain" it is actually a selective history of England.
Above all, only bother with those topics that interest you. That's what everyone else is doing.:)
Hi Jemma,
I understand how you feel and there's nothing wrong with wanting to have a greater understanding of what is going on around us, how things are made, how things got here, how history has shaped the world (and other topics!) I left school at 16 and as it was in the Far East, the only history I ever leaned was about Parameswara and Ghengis Khan etc and I am so ignorant about the history of my own country, but slowly, through books (libraries are a free source of educational materials) visits to historical sites (and learning about them and the characters involved), it's slowly coming together.
My husband has such a thirst for knowledge that he's doing a home study course on CD and video, but there are other opportunities, like adult education classes and the Open University - none of them free sadly, but something like adult education would give you a chance to make new friends. And actually, there are nowadays many really interesting television programmes about wildlife and history in addition to the news channels and that's all free!
So go for it girl - it can be fun and rewarding!
Love and peace,
Judy
Above all - enjoy! Learning is great fun.:D
Here's a good one I completely forgot about:
[url]TED: Ideas worth spreading[/url]
Watch one video a day. Begin to scare your friends with your knowledge. 😀
Oh and this for highbrow podcasts. Load a few into your podcast and listen on the way to work. I'd pick some of the following:
[url]BBC - Podcasts and Downloads - A History of the World in 100 Objects[/url]
[url]BBC - Podcasts and Downloads - Best of Natural History Radio[/url]
[url]BBC - Podcasts and Downloads - In Our Time Archive: Culture[/url]
[url]BBC - Podcasts and Downloads - In Our Time Archive: History[/url]
[url]BBC - Podcasts and Downloads - In Our Time Archive: Science[/url]
[DLMURL="http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/material/all"]BBC - Podcasts and Downloads - Material World[/DLMURL]
[url]BBC - Podcasts and Downloads - Inside Health[/url]
[url]BBC - Podcasts and Downloads - Peter Day's World of Business[/url]
[url]BBC - Podcasts and Downloads - The Bottom Line with Evan Davis[/url]
Remember, just one a day and you'll know so much in a year's time. 🙂
While I agree that you have probably underestimated how much you know already, I think you have probably also overestimated what everyone else knows.
Crowan has mentioned the most interesting of things
We are all knowledgeable in so many different things
My interests would bore many and enthrall others
My mechanical and electrical interests are not for others
My god-daughters interests in dance and music are difficult to share
My friends abilities in needle crafts, flower arranging are not talked about
We all can do so many things, however they are not talked about
If we do, we can be so very boring to those around us
No two people are identical, we are all wired differently
What we know and what we do differs from each other
We can all take the same information and see something different
Just be yourself and grow into you, and do not try to be what you are not
You will love yourself all the more for being comfortable with who you are
Gerald Durrell once said that the most wonderful words in the English language are "I don't know. " - because someone will then explain and you have a chance to increase your knowledge.
Since overcoming the lack of confidence I used to have in myself, I have discovered the joys of, " I don't understand. Please explain. "
Gerald Durrell once said that the most wonderful words in the English language are "I don't know. " - because someone will then explain and you have a chance to increase your knowledge.
Since overcoming the lack of confidence I used to have in myself, I have discovered the joys of, " I don't understand. Please explain. "
That reminds me of a ditty that goes something like:
I keep six honest serving men
(They taught me all I knew);
Their names are What, and Why and When,
How and Where and Who!
Rudyard Kipling, I think - I must look it up! Yes [url]here it is[/url] - have a look at the discussion for the full version