You Should Know That You Know A Lot More Than You Think You Do
More importantly, you know plenty more than you need to prosper
If you had a black, microfleece quarter zip pullover coverered in hundreds of strands of white cat fur, how would you clean it?
I was faced with just this chore earlier, and after struggling with an anti-cat hair tool with the garment smoothed across my bed-spread-covered mattress, I decided to actually think this through. (You’ll have already come to the conclusion which it took me the faulty effort to come to, that this is not the best way to go about it.) Resistance, or the lack thereof, made this approach less than effective, and so I knew there had to be a better way.
Moments later, after I had pulled that sucker down over my bed-head hair, I was ready to pat myself on the back. Problem solved, right? Wrong. It’s time to do my back….
You’ll either know already (shame on you for spoiling my punchline), or you will now, I was eventually back at it, the left breast pocket logo sitting atop my right shoulder blade, and I can assure you, there has not been a greater amount of disproportionate, undeserved pride of accomplishment than I was smuggly guilty of having at that moment after I had donned that thing backwards.
I Knew More Than I Needed To Know All Along
How often have you finally completed a task only to beat yourself up over how long it took you to complete it in light of how long you mucked about compared to actually were working it through? If you are like me, and were you to express the answer as a percentage, you more or less go 10-for-10 on a good day and bat 1oo percent on a bad.
Q: Why is that annoying fact true, and why do we seem so willing to accept it?
A: Because you are a human being and so apt to act before thinking, which is the natural way of things, and so reason dictates that you be okay with the knowledge that’s the case.
If you reread the above answer, you might notice it implies that one’s belief system is predicated upon having an internal understanding regarding, which is to say you’ve “knowledge” of, what you need BEFORE YOU NEEDED IT, and that is my whole point. This state of being is exceedingly common, however we gloss over that, and so suffer the consequences (I almost revised thinking that too dramatic an evaluation, but it stayed upon reflection, it is insufferable, ergo we suffer), for no apparent reason other than it just generally hasn’t yet occured to us that’s the reason!
What Knowing You Know More Than You Knew Means
Ultimately, at the end of the yada, yada, yada, you need only tap into your smarts in order to actually benefit from having developed them over the moments, hours, days and years of your observant self’s life.
So, make a note to yourself to mirror Sally Fields’ award ceremony realization: you are good enough, and gosh darnit, people like you.