I was discussing my irritation with a friend about this excuse bandied about in companies. “I don’t know what I don’t know”.
Drives me bonkers. Probably because at some point children, you need to just know that you don’t know EVERYTHING. Seriously. And then when you later say, “oops. I didn’t know what I didn’t know” we won’t have to shake our heads.
Yeah. And you know why? Because you thought you knew e v e r y t h i n g. Because somehow in our parenting failures, we raise teenagers who turn into young people (yes even millennials) who think they know everything. Seriously people. Wisdom and time may teach them what they don’t know, but it’s time they embrace the fact that there’s a boat load of information they don’t know. Just as, those of us who are the elders, so sage and wise, are hyper aware that we can’t possibly know everything.
Your mission, if you choose to accept it: Know and acknowledge what you don’t know. At least know that you cannot know everything, and in fact at your age, (even at 100), you couldn’t possibly know as much as Neil deGrasse Tyson.
Be kind. Be safe. Be appropriate. Now go!
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