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Knowledge is an inner power that we can harness to make our lives better. We can utilize it to get healthier, richer, more secure, and happier. We can also utilize it to improve our relationships with others, especially our family and loved ones. Being knowledgeable gives us a great advantage in achieving our goals in life more efficiently and effectively because it gives us more awareness and sense of direction. So if you want to be more successful in life and beyond, get knowledge. Here’s how to acquire rich and pure knowledge in 10 ways: 1. Reject foolishness. Stop feeling, thinking, and acting like you know it all. Humbly admit that you still don’t know a lot of things and there are others who are more knowledgeable than you in certain fields. When you reject foolishness, arrogance, and ignorance, you begin to open your mind and accept more knowledge. Remember that you can’t acquire or accommodate both knowledge and foolishness at the same time. Hence, reject the latter. 2. Have an intelligent heart. Let good virtues enter your heart. These virtues include patience, humility, kindness, honesty, love, compassion, peacefulness, righteousness, and understanding. Yes, the heart, not only the mind, can be intelligent. When you have a smart heart, you will love knowledge and personal growth rather than folly and destruction. When you have an understanding heart, your mind becomes more capable of acquiring knowledge, because the heart deepens the mind. 3. Find a teacher. Find a good supplier of knowledge. Look for a teacher who is an expert, experienced, and true to their words. Get someone who practices what he or she preaches. Of course, you can get knowledge from your own studies, research, and experiences, but having a teacher will save you more time and effort in getting the knowledge you desire to possess. Time can also be your great teacher, so don’t lose time but save it. 4. Take instructions. Be a good student and receive instructions from your teacher. Get rid of pride and arrogance so you can follow those instructions properly. With sincerity, you will get the knowledge you want to learn. So take it seriously to achieve your aim. 5. Observe discipline. Practice self-control. Overcome your laziness and procrastination. Avoid temptations that pull you away from learning. Learn how to focus and prioritize. If there’s something you need to do first before you can acquire knowledge, it’s having self-discipline. Thus, be your own teacher and teach yourself some discipline. 6. Pay the price. To acquire knowledge, you have to pay the price. So pay time, attention, energy, dedication, and even money if necessary. You have to give up something to get something. The cost of knowledge could be expensive. Thus, choose only the knowledge you can truly afford. Take note that you cannot have all the knowledge in the world. So choose the best knowledge and give up those that are not needed to optimize your mind and life. 7. Value corrections and learn from your mistakes. Do not be mad at people who respectfully disagree with you. Be open to reasons and corrections. Appreciate others who share their honest and reasonable arguments. When you listen to and appreciate people’s arguments, you begin to know and understand more. You become aware of the different sides of stories. The positive and negative thoughts in your mind become more balanced. Thus, your knowledge grows even more. 8. Embrace the truth. Do not fear and deny the truth if you want to gain more knowledge. Knowing the truth may be painful, but if you can face it, you can possess and harness it to your advantage. Lies are fake knowledge. And people often choose them because they are more convenient than the truth. If you want pure and authentic knowledge, reject the comfort of lies and confront the truth instead no matter how inconvenient it is. 9. Share knowledge. Be a teacher and share your knowledge with others. Teaching is also an effective way of learning because when you teach, you also strive to learn more to teach more. Sharing knowledge inspires us to produce more knowledge. It also helps us guarantee that the knowledge we store in our brain will not go wasted as we share them with others to continue even after many generations. 10. Love knowledge. Finally, love knowledge. Fight for knowledge, protect it, and live with it. No matter how difficult it is to acquire and keep the knowledge you want, do your best to get and preserve it. When you love knowledge, you don’t just put it in your brain or mind, but you also keep it in your heart and soul. You become patient, you don’t lose hope and faith, and you make sacrifices just to acquire knowledge. So if there is one most effective way to gain knowledge, it is by loving it. Knowing is just the beginning. Having the right knowledge gives us the edge to be one step ahead of others. However, remember that knowing is just the beginning of our journey to personal development. Once you acquire knowledge, you still have to verify it and make a stand on it to gain wisdom, practice it to attain understanding, and finally live with it to have insight or confidence in the future.