No matter on what level you are on the evolutionary scale, the percentage of knowledge that you didn't know that you didn't know stays at 99%.
Sometimes it overlaps with what you know that you don't know, but mostly not.
All breakthroughs come from that 99%.
There is a certain way of being in the world that triggers the 99% to "release" that hidden knowledge to you. Seth Godin calls that "certain way of being in the world" poking the box.
Most people poke their nose into other people's stuff (gossip) but never poke the box. So the breakthroughs are few and far between, though they could be frequent. I love the sound of popcorn popping: that reminds me of the sound of the breakthroughs.
Anyway, I habitually poke the box, and my breakthroughs are frequent, but this past 10 days I had big breakthroughs, and even one of my students almost had one, though she doesn't know it was a potential breakthrough.
Sometimes good things happen to us, out of the blue, but we don't
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