“A Jedi uses the Force for knowledge and defense, never for attack.”
During his training on Dagobah Luke Skywalker learns the following teaching from Master Yoda: “A Jedi uses the Force for knowledge and defence, never for attack,”. This quotation illustrates the heart of Jedi teaching.
This can seem difficult to make sense of as the Jedi do use weapons on a regular basis to fight the enemy. The action of Luke during his battle with Darth Vader show that he had taken this teaching on board. When Luke had the chance to finish the enemy with a fatal blow, he threw away his lightsaber. At this point, Luke became a Jedi.
Using the force for gaining knowledge offers a greater power to a Jedi than using it for becoming a victor by use of extortion. Yoda shows that knowledge is power not the use of a superior weapon.
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Knowledge is power
One of the greatest resource ones can have is knowledge. How happy one can become and help depends on knowledge. Knowledge refers to useful ideas and information got that can be applied in real life situations.
The best thing you can give to your body is happy if you don’t then it will be difficult to handle daily activities and with time health and knowledge will deteriorate.
Acquire, accumulate and retain knowledge
Most people can acquire knowledge and let it go away before they even apply it. This is the same as putting your treasures in a bag which has a hole. Wisdom should be acquired, treasured and well used in times of necessity. Anything can be changed, a bad state can be changed to a good one.
Any knowledge that can have an impact on us must be acquired and this should be what we are on the lookout for at all times.
Make sure you acquire it even if you don’t need it at that moment. You should never accept any experience to just allow the meaning to evade you. Any knowledge acquired has an impact on us.
Knowledge should be acquired at all times and one should not choose valuable ornaments over it. Knowledge can do everything that precious things can do. Knowledge is the best wealth that one can accumulate, it is also evident that the more we work to get knowledge is more worthy than working for money.
Knowledge has the capacity to fill in gaps in wealth that has more value and can satisfy our wants.
Understanding Power
Power is the act of having control over what people’s belief, emotions, and behaviour
The nature of power is great. Power facilitates cohesiveness and unity in the society. Power has an impact on the people’s politics, knowledge, financial, organisation and other activities, therefore, bring about a lifestyle for the people. There are problems in power, they come about as a result of the actions of the persons in power in that what they aim when in authority.
Power theories rely on analysis done by French and Raven over four decades ago. They identified key factors that result to power asCoercive power; refers using excess forces in order to cling to power such as lowering supplies made, sacking workers and demonstration.
Reward power;
This is giving favours to individuals to have power and control over them. Mostly the rewards are what people need such as money for the poor.
Legitimate power;
This refers to power where you have control over key resources, therefore, letting you power
Expert power;
This is having some skills in which other people don’t have
Referent power;
This is having some power where some people regard you as having some control over them but comes along with some other things.
Power is different from leadership and authority. It can be both more or less of the other but it is not similar to a responsibility that one holds at the place of work
How Great Leaders Gain Knowledge
Leaders become more knowledgeable by gaining knowledge through learning and putting what they learn into practice. It takes many years and therefore should be a long-term strategy.
To acquire as much knowledge depends on the following factors. The first is self-knowledge, this refers to understanding what you can do and what you cant and your personality and how it fits with your current environment.
Getting knowledge of others. Take time to know the nature of your workmates. When you create a good relationship it will be easier to identify what they enjoy, the way of communicating, background and other key factors. The more you learn about them the easier it is to work with them.
Acquiring knowledge also involves getting to know your field. Know the history of your industry and how it has evolved up to today and the expected changes in future. Identify what your competitors do and cannot do.
Inspire Power in others with Great Leadership
Feeling significant is vital for everyone. Experts with a proper understanding of a subject gain in importance in an organisation. Your workmates will always consult you on some issues to get an advice. The act of giving information at the workplace gives you some power hence confirming knowledge is power.
At a point in life, we come along knowledgeable individuals who are not willing to help, or they tend to not being of help in order to make them feel more superior, by this they get more respect from some people but this doesn’t make them leaders. Leadership is not always about power or creating deficiencies to get power.
True leaders cooperate with other individuals in order to make the organisation to be more beneficial. The act as role models through their actions instead of acting as kingpins of knowledge, they are not mean and try as much in making the others be more effective and less dependent. If having knowledge makes you powerful, then being a leader makes you great.
Being generous to your colleagues and the organisation leads to more success. When the time comes, you can choose to remain as an expert or eventually become a leader. The more you instil power over others the greater you become. As a consequence, this makes you feel smarter and more important as a leader.
Originally posted 2018-07-10 11:34:57.
