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These Three Little Words Are Holding You Back (and you have no idea!)
The Curse of Not Knowing…
“I don’t know whether it’s even possible,” she said
“It’s never been done like this before,” she said to me, the passionate would-be author and campaigner. “I don’t know if it’s possible, but I feel that it’s the right thing to do.”
And then….
And then the next words out of her mouth were her logical brain taking over. The logical brain that starts to spin us into the future, or takes us back into the past and reminds us of all those times we’ve ‘failed’:
— I don’t know where to start
— I have so many ideas, I need more time to decide which is the right one
— I need to consult with…
— Oh, what if X happens? (good OR bad!)
This is what happens when we don’t know the difference between ‘I don’t know’ being a statement of truth, and I don’t know being something problematic we have to solve before we can take a step forward.
Sure, sometimes there are things to figure out, or, at least, to sit with; the degree of risk, the potential downside, the priority this project has above other things we want to do.
