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Knowing the name of something without its context is trivia, not knowledge.
Drawn from what David Perell said
What David Perell actually said
- David Perell Founder of Write of Passage, an online writing school
But knowing the name of something without also understanding the context behind it isn’t knowledge. It’s trivia — and trivia is an ignorant person’s idea of what knowledge looks like.
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