Kinds of knowledge.

Somebody smart may be the person who can tell you the root of a word mentioned, who can date the events leading up to the founding of the U.S. , who knows twenty digits of Pi, who can convert six centimeters to inches in a flash. Then again the smart one could be the one who sees more than just a painting, the one who knows what colours go best together, the one who loves to take advice, the one who comforts where comfort is due, and leaves when it is time.
As far as I can see and fathom there are three kinds of knowledge: brain knowledge, head knowledge, and heart knowledge. The kind most applauded being the brain knowledge. The kind most underestimated, the head knowledge, and the kind of knowledge most misunderstood being that of the heart. Surely there are terms for each of these knowledges that I have yet to hear but I won't allow that to hinder my thoughts...so I'll define them the way they appear to me.
Brain knowledge is book learning: is the ability to understand the discoveries unearthed by those that have come before. It is reading a book and having a clear idea of the definition of each and every word therein. It is knowing what makes an engineer an engineer. These smarts equal progress, they equal long hours of study. Those who posses them are often those who can overcome all the lions of theory, but are found lacking when it comes to actual living.
Head knowledge is quick-wit, it is the ability to acurately predict the repercussions of one's actions and react to them. It is knowing how variables effect a situation-a real life state of affairs, that is, not a mathematic algorithm. It is seeing beyond the facts and facing the truth. It is manipulation. This intelligence equals accepting your weaknesses, and is often possessed by those who fail tests yet excel at life.
Heart knowledge is something different. It is understanding the feelings of another. It is looking for someone to bare one's soul to. It is balancing on the edge of our world, it is pounding on the door of moral revolution. It is looking for something more, it is believing in the afterlife. This knowledge requires living like it's your last day, finding beauty in ashes. Those who possess heart knowledge never hesitate before taking a leap of faith or falling into the arms of the unknown.
These three knowledges have formed and sculpted our world into the bustling hubbub of diversity that it is. Which knowledge do you possess? Will uncovering your "knowledge" be the key to revealing the map of your life? No. No, because they seem always to be united to closely to be picked apart.
Albert Einstein is a good example for this matrimony of difference. He most definetely possessed knowledge of the brain. He's said to have been an independent man yet he married (always an action that is in some way influenced by the heart). Even Einstein, arguably the smartest man ever, wasn't one-hundred percent brain knowledge.
Call me crazy but I always thought that Ghengis Khan (Mongolian horde-boss) was smart for being receptive to the views and discoveries of those he conquered. Unlike the Caesars, he knew his people weren't all-knowing and could learn from those cultures around them, even from the individuals he decided needed to die. Khan's head knowledge revealed to him that even though he was the biggest and the strongest, he wasn't the smartest.
The perfect example of heart knowledge is the example left us by Christ. The only man who has given it all up in return for nothing. He saw through the eye of his heart into the heart of those who were hurting and knew exactly what needed to be done. This man also exhibited the other two knowledges, further proving my point.
Everyone is a mixture, a combination of the three knowledges though one may be more detectable in a person than the other two. I think that everyone has some say in which knowledge they belong to, but mostly people are born with their knowledges engrained into their being. This is no excuse to keep from exploring another side of life. Don't think that your "kind of knowledge" can ever prevent you from searching for the knowledge you have yet to perceive inside of yourself.
That's what I see. Whether I see it through the eye of my brain, my head, or my heart I cannot say. Maybe this knowledge of mine will morph and change, maybe it will stay the same until the day I die. Again, who is to say?

Lydia