# Separate the wheat from the chaff Created On: 10-13-2022 08:58 am Type:: #note/evergreen🌲 #concept Up:: [[Reading (MOC)]] Topics:: [[Emergence (MOC)]], [[Concepts (MOC)]], [[Psychology (MOC)]] Related:: --- An old adage that reflects our ability to separate "the good from the bad". While it has biblical references to judging individuals, this phrase, more broadly speaking, reflects our ability to refine things, such as ideas, concepts, meaning, etc. I've typically associated this with [[Reading (MOC)]] - the idea of separating the morsels of wisdomous knowledge and action-inspiring content from the less meaningful, mundane, and contextually-bound.