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Get Rich By Being a Don't-Know-It-All

"I don't know what I'm doing."  Is there something worse than saying this to your boss? All of us want to feel that we know how to do our job well. As such, no one wants to be a don't-know-it-all fool.   If people really know what they are doing, why are we still seeing mistakes in airplanes, stock market crashes and accidents in the workplace?  It's obvious that we don't know it all.  The fact is that we cannot avoid 'not knowing': we simply don't know a lot of the time.  Because life is full of surprises and messiness, even the best plans will get wrong.  Furthermore, life is impermanent; even if you know it all now, the next moment you everything changes.  Thus not knowing is not a bad thing, in fact it is a first step towards mastery and excellence. By adopting a 'don't-know' mentality, we can achieve the following 7 benefits: We are open to new ideas We are ready to admit our flaws and mistakes, thus preventing f