DWQA QuestionsCategory: Human PotentialCan Creator explain the difference between an educated guess and faith, and a wild guess and faith?
Nicola Staff asked 3 years ago
We would see an educated guess as having greater value than a wild guess just taken in the abstract, which is the framing of your question, without an example. We prize scholarship in all things, that is the duty of the soul, to learn and grow as best it can to make its way in life, to be moving in a positive direction, which always requires learning and growth because it is learning that gives rise to growth and creates the possibility of being an environment when growth can happen, and is supported by the intention. Whenever one is seeking something greater, something more, it will always have a component of learning. This is true no matter what the search for novelty might be motivated by. Perhaps it is only the desire to take a vacation trip, but within that desire is always the awareness of a reward that will come from seeing new sights, experiencing some new things, or at least things in a new way from having a fresh environment and what that might bring to one’s perspectives. Seeking knowledge serves the soul greatly, because it is inherent and a necessity to the soul journey. An educated guess implies that learning process being underway and some prior scholarship to form the basis of a speculation about something being possible at least, because one has something to go on in prior knowledge having been gained. A "wild guess" is by definition "an admission of ignorance," and that is never the best platform for making gains about anything other than through sheer luck. When one lacks knowledge, it will be, in fact, impossible to make guesses with any accuracy, and that is the difference from an educated guess, which is at least based on prior learning as far as that goes, but it might be enough to provide a foundation to point towards the reality of something by extension, and that educated guess might well reveal a likelihood that can be confirmed eventually, whereas a wild guess made at random will just as likely be proven false and unhelpful. So what this points to is the need for commitment and diligence in one’s life to apply energy towards learning and growth always in what one does. This will be a great motivator and a way to gain great progress and many rewards along the way. This is how people become experienced, and then experts, and highly sought by others to be mentors, to be coaches, to be teachers, guides, counselors, and even gurus because they have attained a body of knowledge and awareness through hard-won life experience that cannot be obtained in any other way. So that “sweat equity” they have contributed to the process of their learning and growth can pay many dividends—anything that contributes to such a journey is worth doing.