Be an idiot now, not later.

There is value in knowing less.

Not that it feels like it. In fact, when you are in a conversation where everyone seems to know the process, the idea, the joke, the ANYTHING, it feels shit.

You have to ask. You have to expose the fact you don't know something. You've peeled up your armour, and shown everyone on the call, or in the office, that you are lacking. Here is your weak spot.

Good. You should be doing this.

The very minute you think you know it all, you're fucked.

Because here’s the thing no one tells you: the people who pretend to get it rarely do. They’re just better at playing along. Smiling. Nodding. Miming competence so convincingly, they forget they’re bluffing. And then they post their deeply thought-through garbage on LinkedIn where someone who really knows will appear in the comments to correct them, or challenge them.

But that performance? It costs something. Oh boy, can it ruin you.

It costs real understanding. And it definitely costs the kind of trust that comes when someone says, “Wait, can we go back a second?”

If you’re always performing, no one can ever help you bridge gaps and BE BETTER. They can’t help you, challenge you, or teach you anything worth knowing.

And what are you going to do when someone point-blank asks you - Can you help me with this? And you don't know because you didn't want to feel like a twat.

So ask the question. Sound like a pecker who is green behind the ears.

Because if you don't, the next person will, and when they bunny hop your skillset and your value, you'll have no one to blame but yourself. And then, horror of horrors, you'll have t ask them for help. Funny.

There are two kinds of fucking idiots. Don't be the one who ruins their potential by trying not to look like an idiot in the first place. Knowing less gives you all of this lush, ripe room for knowing more.