Imagine for a minute that you are new on Earth, first day, and you are in a car as a passenger on a highway. You watch the driver look, hold the wheel, use the brake and drive.. It seems very important what the driver is doing, so you notice many small details. However, you have no idea how much the car weighs ! or on a hill that force changes ! You watch the driver so carefully but have no idea about the basic weight of the car..

Now, you are a business person in a room with your thoughts. A presenter talks and you listen, but you watch the posture, the haircut, the order of speech .. very carefully But you have no idea about how the data moves, or the learning curve to use the tools, or even more how to innovate against "ordinary" .. you have no idea ! How could you.. so you watch the presenter carefully..

Basically, everyone has an idea of lifting a box.. so no matter how detached your life in the office is, you can appreciate a fork-lift. However, you have no idea about thirty years of *nix development, the toolkit evolution, the language wars.. etc

Here is the hard part -- many small-minded people (who run money) think NOTHING of learning.. its not important.. they care about control of the situation, and who gets the profit. Some leaders actually cultivate a smug disdain for "workers" .. some of those leaders have money.. etc...

Know this well - it is hard to believe how true it is, but perhaps you will find out over the years.