You don't have to know everything.

In fact, you don't even need to know most things.

But you do have to know that progress often calls for us to move forward without knowing.

It asks that we're willing to learn along the way to pick up the pieces as we walk by them.

That's a vulnerability that is sometimes tough to face.

It's a nakedness that we never really shake.

The idea that in order to grow, we have to leave the now,

ill prepared for tomorrow, but knowing that we have everything we need to make the transition.

The losses become lessons.

The failures become data points.

The mistakes become our clarity.

And until we understand this, there really isn't an upward trajectory.

We place too much value on the known, the things we understand, the cyclical nature of a day-to-day

that is, as much as life can be predictable and determined.

Characteristics that are actually antithetical to growth.

In fact, one could make an argument that in this incredible day and age of information, our need and ability to know often comes

at the expense of true transformation. I studied podcasts for so long before I started one that I

could have created and improved upon my own, I don't know, 400 times over.

I had to find out who uses what, when to upload, how long the episode should be, and on and on.

There are books and videos, there are classes and coaches.

All of it wonderful, I'm sure, in its own way.

But nothing so powerful as that university of experience, of life.

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