The day you become the expert is the day it gets dangerous to stop being a student.
LEADERSHIP
WHAT THIS MEANS
Expertise creates a quiet incentive to stop asking. Once people treat you as the one who knows, questions start to feel like admissions, and the field keeps moving while your picture of it stays where it was. The risk is not arrogance so much as the loss of a habit nobody expects you to keep.
Keep something in your week where you are visibly a beginner, inside your field or outside it. Ask the junior people what they are reading. Being the expert and being a student are compatible, though it takes effort to hold both.
A QUESTION TO SIT WITH
Where are you the expert and no longer being taught?
MORE IN AMBITION, SUCCESS & LEGACY
- Graduation is when school stops making you learn. That’s exactly when you have to start choosing to.
- Pick one thing and go so deep that people start asking you about it. That’s where respect comes from.
- Somewhere, the thing you’re working on is the answer to someone’s bad day. Work like you know that.
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