Jerrill had a very interesting point this week, and we wanted to share it with our readers. It’s not that people don’t know this, at least at some level, it’s just that we either forget it, or don’t want to swallow our pride and undertake it…the “it”, is asking for directions.
There are very few people out there who can make intuitive leaps of greater understanding out of scarce information. You know, the people who excel in an area in spite of all surroundings and obstacles. These are the “genius janitors” out there, solving quantum physics equations on their lunch breaks. They are the jungle explorers who can successfully navigate to the other side, safe from animals and disease. These are the people that make/invent the things that push civilization forward. People like Leonardo da Vinci and Nicola Tesla. For the rest of us mere mortals, gleaning a deep understanding of something takes work and time. Time we don’t generally have. Another problem? Many of us have too much pride to ask those individuals that already have the knowledge we need to share it with us. It’s hard for us to make progress as individuals, much less move forward and take a bunch of people with us. You know who you are! You are the man that refuses to ask for directions and gets lost, because navigating from point A to point B seemed like such an easy task at the beginning of the road trip (Thank goodness for GPS!). You are the person out there quietly struggling to pay the bills and building up a savings account because you were never taught how in school and never sought out the advice of someone who has it all figured out. You know how your favorite southern couple feels about that! Swallow that pride! Find somebody who is “smarter” than you and ask them to share their knowledge. Odds are, they will happily do so, and you won’t have to reinvent the wheel. Find someone who is already doing what you want to do yourself, be it find that boutique or thrift store across town, balance that budget, or solve that physics equation!
You don’t have to go through life without help. Nobody does. There are scads of things out there to help you along, some are free and some aren’t, but they are all there for you. But you have to take the first step. You have to ask for help, before it is given to you!
