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You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know

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It is effortless to come into a conversation and feel like you need to have all the answers. It doesn’t matter if you are the CEO of a startup, part of a team in a larger organization, or even talking to your partner. Part of our roles, and I would argue that it is also our responsibility to know what we don’t know.

Seek to Understand: It is not the answers that will drive the decision-making. What drives decision-making is having the foresight to ask the right questions at the right time. That is why seeking to understand what we don’t know is so vital in order to obtain the correct information or knowledge to more forward.

Know That No One Really Knows: Many times, we answer a question with only a minimal amount of information or just through the assumptions we have. The thing is, we are not alone. Many folks do this each day and many times a day. Consider ways to mitigate that. Whether it is testing those assumptions or realizing collectively that the future isn’t here yet and that a unified path forward is really your starting point, be honest with what you don’t know and create a critical way to identifying what it is that you need to know.

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The Paths We Create

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Ja-Nae in Copenhagen

Stepping around the remainder of snow and ice, I came across old railroad tracks. They were hidden from my normal path yet these tracks had been there for years. I decided to follow what remained of the tracks and found myself on an amazing jaunt through woods I had never been before. I realized a few things:

💡The paths we create don’t have to be new. There is a time to explore new frontiers; to do something different, but then there are times to walk down a path that was forged by our ancestors and served them well. Though old, though different than before, those ghosts have a lot to teach us.

💡We abandon paths too quickly without seeing what they have to offer. I could have very easily looked at those tracks and headed back down my normal route. Instead, I committed to seeing where this new path would take me.

💡We never create paths alone. We walk several paths that are interwoven by our footsteps through time. Some are walked with others for a long leg of the journey, while other parts bring new hands to hold along the way. And some are meant solely for us. But however we walk, this is our creation. These are our decisions, our triumphs, our failures, and our frontiers to explore. I look forward to creating this next leg of the path with you.