The Four Types Of Information
- Known Knowns: Things we know, like how to ride a bicycle.
- Known Unknowns: Stuff we don’t understand, like quantum physics.
- Unknown Knowns: Things we know but never realized that we knew it. Most of it comes naturally to us, like parenting or crying.
- Unknown Unknowns: This is the information we have no clue about, and we don’t even know the fact that we don’t have a clue about this.
Most people have information in all these four types, making each brain a combination of a labyrinth and a jigsaw puzzle.
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