You don't know what you don't know.

Let's do an exercise that will show us the difficulty that can arise for oneself when our vocabulary is limited.

The words we use and associate with other words determine how we will express and behave.

For example, let's say we ask ourselves: Do I believe building wealth is easy? Whether you answer yes or no, you have limited yourself.

Here is why: The word easy means many things. Some of which you might see as supportive of building wealth and some as detrimental. And we haven't even looked at our definition of "wealth".

When you use the word easy, do you realize it means all of the following:

easy:

ADJECTIVE

1. posing no difficulty; requiring little effort.

2. not hurried or forced

3. free from worry or anxiety

4. affording pleasure

5. having little impact

6. readily exploited or tricked

7.in fortunate circumstances financially; moderately rich

8. marked by moderate steepness

9. affording comfort

10. casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior

11. less in demand and therefore readily obtainable

12.obtained with little effort or sacrifice, often obtained illegally

The issue is, you don't necessarily know what definitions you have accepted over your lifetime regarding even this word because the word and how it is associated to other words you know exists at a physical level (in the connections between neurons in your brain) beneath your conscious awareness. And even your ability to figure out how the words are connected can be affected by other words and associations that were put there by television, school, your parents, peers, and other things in your environment that may have been designed to deliberately limit you.

Your entire movement in your environment is determined by the connections in your brain which directs even your muscle movement through your nervous system. And if your ability to interact with others, build relationships, work, communicate, etc is based on words in our system, then pretty much everything in your life is determined by your vocabulary (the words you know and how they are defined and connected to the other words you know). That feeling of "just knowing" something is actually just a result of your body being effective in that environment or within processing a certain piece of information. Hence the phrase, "You don't know what you don't know".

So unless you have specified your vocabulary to allow you to interact effortlessly in a particular environment you will not be able to function effectively in that environment. And this is why we have different classes of society. It is all words.