As soon as knowledge is transferred, it becomes information.
There’s an easy argument for why information doesn’t make us any more knowledgable. Knowledge and information are two different things, yet knowledge is dependant on information to be there.
Knowledge is a processed version of information. That is just as your furniture is a processed version of wood. For it to become furniture, someone has to process the wood itself, carve the different parts of the furniture out, and the assemble the whole thing.
The difference between the furniture and knowledge is that you’ll have to do the processing yourself with information to become knowledge. As soon as you share your knowledge, it becomes information.
The creation of knowledge is an internal process in each and every one of us. That makes it hard to say exactly how knowledge is created, since it’s very individual. What’s important is to recognise the process itself, and let it take the time it needs. We need to learn how to develop knowledge ourselves. We might need to talk to people about how they create knowledge, and reflect upon knowledge that we’ve already created.
What information do you take in, and how do you transform it in to knowledge?