Good morning and welcome to the Increase Your Impact Podcast. I'm Justin Sua, episode 1,796. I heard a phrase today that

has been on my mind all day. The phrase goes, be a learn at all, not a know at all. Be a learn at all,

not a know at all. Now, obviously, we can't learn everything there is to know about everything,

but the basic concept is highlighting the importance of curiosity,

learning more, understanding people.

And if you want to learn, you need to get better at asking questions

instead of going around telling people

what the answer is or what you think, ask people what they think. Ask people what their opinion is.

Ask as many questions as you possibly can. Because a know-it-all is someone who has a lot of blind

spots. Because we can't possibly know it all. It's someone who's

trying to status signal their their knowledge. It's someone who's trying to establish a position

of power. It's someone and sometimes it comes from a good place. Sometimes the intentions are

they're well-intended people trying to show how much they know.

Now, what we often discount is the environment.

Sometimes the environment that you work in, the environment you play in, the environment

at home makes you more susceptible to skewing towards the learn it all or the know at all.

Maybe you're an environment where it pays to be smart and you have to show how smart you are.

You have to debate and you have to show your authority and your confidence with what you know.

However, there are other environments where it's important to say, I don't know,

and to display intellectual humility. And when people have that mindset, sincerely trying to learn it all,

that's when you begin to learn more and more and more. And then you become such a tremendous asset to people who you're with because you've

collected so much information from so many different people.

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