Where You’re Good

The amazing thing about knowledge is the more I learn, the more I realize what I don’t know.

I heard a long time ago that the true measure of wisdom is knowing what you don’t know. What you don’t understand. What you haven’t taken the time to learn.

There are many different ways to talk about this, and most people talk about what they know. What their core competencies are.

Almost nobody defines their blank spots. Where they have limited or no knowledge.

It’s easier for people to be classified by others that way. By what they know, and are good at, as opposed to what they don’t know, or aren’t good at. Because when you stop and think about it, there is a ton of things we don’t know, and aren’t good at, that it would be nearly impossible to differentiate from those around us.

It’s much easier to classify someone as a doctor, as opposed to someone who knows nothing about business.

Or vice versa, a business man as someone who knows nothing about medicine. Defining where you’re good, and where you’re not, is extremely useful and interesting.

Where are you good? And even more important, where could you be great?