blog 9

Does knowledge make you happier?

The benefits of learning new things in my life is that when a new challenge comes around it will be easy to solve it. I can agree with Cornell and Malcolmson’s article because Learning new things means that you have to put time and a big effort to be able to understand and fix a problem. In the Matrix Neo wanted to learn if he is the “one” so what he did is learn all the things that Morpheus wanted to teach him. One of them was to be able to free his mind to be able to do and learn all the other obstacles that he was going to face. Many times putting the time and effort is very difficult because not  everyone want to go to a classroom and read and do all the homework that needs to be done in order to learn. just like fixing a car, In order to be able to fix a car I will have to go to school and learn all there is to be learned about the engine, transmission and all the other parts about a car, without the knowledge it will be very difficult to fixed it. 

The downsides and pains of new knowledge is that wanting to learn how to fix a car, wanting to learn how to fix a computer or wanting to find out if someone is truthful to a person could be painful. Sometimes when you learn something new then you realize that it is not something you wanted to learn or find out, and that can have a big impact in your life.  For example my friend thought that his girlfriend was cheating on him, what he did next is he went to a private investigator and ask him to find out all this information about his girlfriend. Once the investigator came back with all the pictures and all the information, my friend was very “hurt.” Before the investigator he was 90 percent sure that his girlfriend was having an affair but he chose to have proof and that’s when he had just realized that knowing the truth really hurts or it wasn’t worth it.

In the long run learning the truth is very important to me because it will open up my mind to accept it the way it comes at me. good news or bad news is always better to know .