#436 – What will you learn when you stop knowing?

Knowing is static. Learning is dynamic––like growing and evolving.

Knowing keeps you stuck within the confines of your knowledge, where you're safe, your Ego argues. Not knowing is flexible.

Knowing is a closed box. Allowing is a river flowing unencumbered.

When I was promoted to Language Lead in my AI job, my Ego puffed up––the status, the recognition. Within five seconds, it was panicking, pinching my chest from inside––Language Lead, you? Do you even know your grammar?

I soon realized that the job wasn't about "knowing," because anyone can know their grammar. It was about having the mental flexibility necessary to hold ambiguity and stay open to possibilities (in this case, "possible ways to interpret a text").

This translates into how we relate to life.

When you say you know how to "do life," you're relying on your limited set of lived experiences.

But what about everything you haven't lived?

If you know, these potential, unknown experiences don't exist for you.

And if you're only relying on what you know, how can you overcome challenges with the same thinking that created them?

Embracing I don't know as a way to approach life helps you to stay open and nimble. You allow. You flow. You discover solutions in unexpected places.

What certainties are you ready to drop so that you can move?

Love,

Carolina