What knowledge did you acquire by yourself, and not from another source?

Answer 1

I have acquired lots of knowledge by myself. For example, I knew my family liked spaghetti, but I learned for myself what it tastes like. I knew from watching my dad that hitting your thumb with a hammer hurts, but eventually I found out for myself just how that feels. I could never aquire that knowledge from another source. Almost all experiences we have through our senses let us acquire knowledge for ourselves in this manner.
Now a different kind of knowledge, such as how a car engine operates, or how an airplane flies, or how to read... all came from another source. This includes all academic knowledge.

Answer 2

I couldn't tell you specifics, but I know things I shouldn't know. People will ask me something I know nothing about, and if I think about if for a minute I can come up with a logical or reasonable answer.
Playing trivial pursuit years ago I was asked the question about the nearest solar system to ours. I had no idea and said Andromeda...it was right. Where that came from I don't know.
I have learned to reason on my own, so any knowledge I have can be well used perhaps? My common sense is from me not anyone else, so perhaps knowledge is acquired, and the use of the knowledge is self taught? I know someone with a photographic memory, and he is an idiot. He wastes his time avoiding work and he could be very productive if he had any common sense, integrity or ethics. Sad isn't it?

Answer 3

All knowledge is learned. Everything else is instinct, which is, properly phrased, acquired genetically. I'll use this is an example. Have you ever seen the film "The Lost Language of Cranes"? It is a coming-out story but its title is taken from the opening scenes of a little baby left alone all the time since birth who never acquired language skills. Its crib looked out at metropolitan London and a construction site and all that was visible to the little boy was a tall crane lifting steel to the uppermost floors. The boy mimicked the actions of the crane, swinging his arms slowly as the crane also swung around. That was a learned a behaviour. But the capacity to learn it is genetic.

Answer 4

If you put a newborn baby in a white soundproofed room and fed it intravenously for years and years, how much would that child ever know. (would it even ever walk?)

Whatever you know, that the child in the room doesn't or will never know, is knowledge that you recieved from another source. (which is everything that you know).

Answer 5

I quit school in the 10th grade i didnt learn at all in school. every thing i have learned is from life. i score in the 99% in math ,science, reading. english i am in the mid 70's History 60,s I now own a small maintenance company.

Answer 6

It depends on what you mean "not from another source." I can't think of anything, people don't have much in the way of inborn ability.

Answer 7

nothing!