I think the educational system and the way children are being brought up, especially in schools, and further ahead, they are expected to be a bundle of knowledge. Teachers, parents, someone older may be evaluating the worth of a child in terms of a child’s performance in school.
Not knowing something, in academics or otherwise, was quite shameful for us, and we pretended like we knew about things without having a clue many times when people asked. When people asked do you know this? we just said yes and skipped the possibility of knowing just because of the fear of being classified as an ignorant person.
Later in my life I understood that the ability to admit and say that I don’t know is never a trait of ignorance but it is the right trait for a student to have, and it opens up greater possibilities of knowing.
I also think that in our professional or personal life, or in any aspects of our life, admitting not knowing something builds our core strength as an individual, makes us strong, and creates a sense of responsibility in ourselves.
There were quite a lot of experiences and people who positively influenced me to attain the courage to state blatantly that I do not know when it came to situations and things I do not know, and today I am extending my gratitude to those people.
When you look back you might also have encountered such situations where you pretended to know but in fact didn’t have a clue. So, yes, let’s state strongly that we do not know when we don’t.
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