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Knowledge Mobilization (KMb): Multiple Contributions & Multi-Production Of New Knowledge

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Knowledge Continues To Grow

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Knowledge when shared for social benefit can stretch over boundaries and create new knowledge and new understanding. It never stays the same and continues to grow.

Your Unique Knowledge Role In The Human Knowledge Destiny

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Each person has a unique knowledge role in life. Don’t waste your time and tears trying to gain knowledge to be like someone else. Be proud of your own knowledge – no matter how “limited” it may seem at anytime. But reach further for knowledge, share your own knowledge, and learn from the knowledge of others to make something better for yourself, as yourself.

Yet, don’t stop there.

Combine your unique knowledge – no matter where you are in life – to create new knowledge with others. It’s then that you will find the knowledge role you are meant to have in life – as we all strive together to reach our overall human knowledge destiny to make this world a better place.

I’ve known so many people who have pursued things in life that seemed so far away from whom they are as people because someone else told them their knowledge wasn’t “good enough.” It becomes sad. Or other people who have simply given up. I’ve seen people who have wonderful knowledge filled with personal life experiences – tragic and successful – who try hard to become “more intelligent” because they believe the current knowledge they have has absolutely no value.

Then there are others who try to use their knowledge simply because they selfishly want to make a lot of money.  Sharing knowledge can make people wealthier, but is this type of knowledge sharing contributing to making the world a better place for everyone? Knowledge is being used as a human commodity not a human commonality.

It’s a great challenge to uncover our authentic selves and to develop confidence in our own knowledge through our own unique life experiences that reflects our own authenticity.

The uniqueness and authenticity of your personal knowledge are some of the most important things to recognize on your life journey to become the person you were born to be.  It’s easy to pursue things we think would make us “more knowledgeable” like other people, or pursue knowledge strictly for financial profit. But not recognizing the value of our own knowledge – here and now – does not reflect who we are as an authentic person, as each of us has authentic knowledge.

Unfortunately, I’ve spent time in my life trying to become some things that I thought others wanted me to be, and that I simply wasn’t meant to be.  And I spent time in the past thinking my knowledge had no value. While I don’t fully regret the time I spent trying to fulfill the expectations of others – as it has contributed to my life experience and the knowledge I have now – I sometimes wonder what I could have done for myself had I spent that time trying to gain knowledge strictly for myself, while also valuing my own knowledge.

We all have our strengths and our weaknesses, and it’s a shame when we spend valuable time and energy on trying to be what others expect us to be by focusing on our knowledge “weaknesses” and devaluing our unique knowledge experiences.  When we’re able to focus on the unique contributions to knowledge that each of us can make in life, we accomplish more and grow more in the knowledge role we are meant to have in life – And it’s in the personal recognition of the value of our own knowledge that we can then connect to our overall human knowledge destiny on this planet. 

Knowledge Conflict Resolution Skills

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We must learn to manage knowledge conflicts with conflict resolution skills to find ways to combine our knowledge for social benefit to make the world a better place.  The ultimate goal is a win-win for all knowledge. Openness, listening, learning and empathy help create new knowledge and overcome conflict.

Managing Knowledge Conflicts

How do you manage knowledge conflicts? Are you open to the knowledge of others and try to find common ground to create new knowledge and understanding – or do you think your knowledge is always “right”?

Prioritizing Knowledge

Have you ever thought about how we prioritize knowledge? Far too often we focus on the knowledge of academics or professionals and forget that everyone has knowledge to contribute if such knowledge is used for social benefit to make the world a better place for all of us. How often have we prioritized the more “important” knowledge of academics and professionals and overlooked the contributions that can be made by the knowledge of individual experiences? This is not to say that academic or professional knowledge doesn’t greatly contribute to social benefit – but we can create even wider social benefit when knowledge is combined (from all walks of life) to create new knowledge and perspectives with more understanding.

When we all take the time to strengthen ties of knowledge between rich and poor, professional or non-professional, educated or non-educated, old or young, religious or non-religious, healthy or sick – we can develop greater opportunities to create new knowledge together. It’s this new knowledge creation – especially through Knowledge Mobilization (KMb) – that brings about greater social benefit.

I know from personal experience the difficulty of being the kind of person who will always make time for knowledge that is different from my own – especially in a world of people who put more importance on academic or professional knowledge than on the “trivial” knowledge of lived experiences that all of us can share – no matter who we are, or where we come from.

As we prioritize knowledge and focus more on the knowledge of academics or professionals, we may overlook the valuable knowledge of everyday people. When we prioritize knowledge in this way we become more fragmented as individuals, as cultures – and as human beings.

When we don’t take the time to connect with our fellow human beings, through knowledge sharing, we fail to see the richness and value for social benefit in another person’s knowledge as they share the knowledge of themselves.

Through knowledge sharing we create new knowledge – which can be used for social benefit. This knowledge can reach beyond the isolation of our own communities – no matter where we live – when we decide to prioritize the knowledge of everyone as a community of human beings.

The Process Of Knowledge Mobilization (KMb)

The process of knowledge mobilization is about drawing on all of our known, and perhaps more significantly, unknown sources of knowledge (past and present) by sharing and creating new knowledge to help eliminate the problems we’re facing today – thereby making the world a better place for everyone – by sharing knowledge.

Change & Diversity For New Knowledge

We live in a world of change and diversity – so why do people oppose change and diversity?  New knowledge comes from sharing knowledge to change and improve our existing knowledge to make the world a better place. This is what is referred to as knowledge mobilization (KMb). New knowledge comes from sharing knowledge from the diversity of knowledge that is on this planet. If something is in your way and you keep trying to go down the same path – you will always be stuck without finding or creating new knowledge to help you change direction for improvement.

Change and diversity are some of the best aspects of our lives. If we can embrace change and diversity – especially as new knowledge – we can embrace the complexity of life itself.  When we fear change or diversity we get stuck along the same path without finding or creating new knowledge to help you embrace life more fully and make a difference for the better in this world.

We all have been given the ability to adapt to change and recognize our diversity. It’s important that we take advantage of this ability every day.  Unfortunately, many of us have been taught that change is somehow “bad” for us.  We do our utmost to avoid change; especially in one of the most important aspects of our lives – learning new knowledge to make our personal lives and the world a better place.

The world changes constantly and is full of diversity.  If we want to be completely stagnant and always going down the same path, never learning anything new, never sharing knowledge to create new knowledge, never making a difference – we will never change at all. The world will remain a fear-based, ignorant, hate-filled place.

Change and diversity is for us to embrace and to learn from by combining our knowledge and creating new knowledge.  When we adapt to changes and respect our diversity in our lives we grow as people, and we grow into different people with new knowledge and understanding.  Our lives become much richer for all the changes we go through and because of all the diversity that exists – and ultimately, we make the world a better place for everyone.

 

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