Last week, while interacting with managers, I realized that itโs not so easy to say โ๐ ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ฏโ๐ต ๐ฌ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ธโ to your seniors OR during a team meeting OR to a client. The general feeling is, either you will be considered as incompetent person OR you will lose that opportunity to someone else. He/she might be a more competent person than you, to perform that activity.
However, this decision of pretending to be knowledgeable, is going to harm you or others? People say, it depends upon the situation and who is asking that question. It depends upon what is at stake. May be. But, in the long run isnโt it more beneficial to remove ignorance and be more knowledgeable!!
Interestingly, gaining more & more knowledge randomly may also impact you adversely. As now, you are swimming in an ocean where you donโt have a compass to direct your efforts in the right direction.
Then, itโs equally important to say โNOโ to lot many things. Steve Jobโs interesting quote that โ๐๐ตโ๐ด ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ญ๐บ ๐ฃ๐บ ๐ด๐ข๐บ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐๐, ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ค๐ข๐ฏ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ค๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐ณ๐ข๐ต๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐บ ๐ช๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ต๐ข๐ฏ๐ตโ.
Itโs thought provoking, simply for the reason, when I am concentrating on those โrealโ needs, I can make better decisions. And the decisions we make today do not impact our past, but only the future, be it one minute, one year or ten years from now.
Then there is a different debate โฆ would you concentrate on very few things and become an expert ? OR would like to diversify, since you acknowledge that you donโt know the future ?
See โฆ the more I know, I feel I donโt know!! ๐
