Knowing is usually an advantage.
It saves time.
It lets experience accumulate.
It allows skill to build.
The same advantage can become a blind spot.
I know what this person is like.
I know why this project failed.
I know what the problem is.
The label closes the file.
Now looking feels unnecessary.
The difficulty is not knowledge.
It is the moment knowledge stops functioning as a guide and starts functioning as a substitute for observation.
Fresh evidence can become invisible because the conclusion has already arrived.
A useful discipline is to keep knowledge provisional enough to meet the present.
What do I know?
What am I assuming because I know it?
What would I notice if I did not need the old answer to remain complete?
Knowing can illuminate.
It can also become another form of not looking.

A reflection on knowledge and observation: knowing can orient inquiry, but certainty can also become a reason to stop looking at what is actually here.

The same advantage can become a blind spot.

It is the moment knowledge stops functioning as a guide and starts functioning as a substitute for observation.

Fresh evidence can become invisible because the conclusion has already arrived.

A useful discipline is to keep knowledge provisional enough to meet the present.

What would I notice if I did not need the old answer to remain complete?

It can also become another form of not looking.

Knowing Can Become Another Form of Not Looking