ABSTRACT
The physicist Albert Einstein is one of the great thinkers and personalities who are widely associated with the concept of genius. In everyday speech, being ‘an Einstein' is the same as being extraordinarily smart and gifted. And if someone is smart, people often automatically assume they are also profoundly knowledgeable. Argyris is the author of an article about organizational learning that has become a classic: ‘Teaching Smart People How to Learn'. One of the key points in this text is that the people often assume to be the best learners do not, in fact, excel at this particular discipline. It is a general and significant finding in the author's research that there is a high degree of reluctance to let go of the feeling of control that is associated with knowing and to enter into a state of not-knowing. A closely related and also significant phenomenon is that many simply do not know how to act on not-knowing.
