Drop by drop.
Now, I know that there's a lot of stuff I know, but I also know there's a gazillion times more stuff I don't know. In my quest to know more things, how can I possibly learn about something if I don't even know it exists?? What can I possibly google to find the thing I know the least about? I don't know! It would be rather troubling, if I were the type to allow such things to trouble me. Which I'm not so much, anymore.
Instead, I concentrate on being troubled by the utter lack of temperature regulation in my oven. When I opened the door to investigate the suspicious smell of fire, a big ball of heat flew out and cooked my puzzled head. The two oven thermometers were both pegged at over 600°F. Luckily, my bloodhound-like sense of smell had alerted me to the very first french-fry molecule poofing into carbon before the whole batch incinerated.
With no oven, there can be no cake. This is tragic.
As a distraction, then, I have developed a partial solution for knowing which things you don't know.
1. Pick a common noun.
2. Use it to fill in the blank: "There are different kinds of ______."
3. This is your topic. Reflect that it is certainly true.
4. Now give a speech about it. Coworkers and random people in Wal-Mart make great audiences.
5. If you can describe only one type of said thing, get thee to wikipedia and learn more before you go flapping yer trap at people again.
And if you dare try to use "the topic created in step 2 of Jess's stupid game" as your noun, and try to assert that there must, by definition, be at least two types of topics, true and not-true, then I hope you rot for eternity in a self-referential hell of incomplete systems.
Instead, I concentrate on being troubled by the utter lack of temperature regulation in my oven. When I opened the door to investigate the suspicious smell of fire, a big ball of heat flew out and cooked my puzzled head. The two oven thermometers were both pegged at over 600°F. Luckily, my bloodhound-like sense of smell had alerted me to the very first french-fry molecule poofing into carbon before the whole batch incinerated.
With no oven, there can be no cake. This is tragic.
As a distraction, then, I have developed a partial solution for knowing which things you don't know.
1. Pick a common noun.
2. Use it to fill in the blank: "There are different kinds of ______."
3. This is your topic. Reflect that it is certainly true.
4. Now give a speech about it. Coworkers and random people in Wal-Mart make great audiences.
5. If you can describe only one type of said thing, get thee to wikipedia and learn more before you go flapping yer trap at people again.
And if you dare try to use "the topic created in step 2 of Jess's stupid game" as your noun, and try to assert that there must, by definition, be at least two types of topics, true and not-true, then I hope you rot for eternity in a self-referential hell of incomplete systems.