COSTLY ASSUMPTION

Who is the world’s richest man? Does he have needs? If you think he doesn’t have needs, most likely you are mentally zoned to believe that riches answer every question. We all have needs, which are on different levels of priority. Check your priority list. You have needs, from the lowest to the highest scale.

There’s an interesting need that everyone has at every point in time. It’s the need for knowledge, which is utmost. The truth is that learning never ends. When you commune with knowledge in its depth, you would not be stranded in many cases. There is a link between your need for knowledge and your ability to explore. The former, when established, makes room for the later. The need for knowledge is as important as the need to execute.

There is something to note please, no one knows it all. The day you tactically arrive at the conclusion that you know it all, you successfully create a blueprint of failure. Really, execution becomes smooth when your level of knowledge about a subject is sound. First, know it and know it well. Then you can glide into the execution phase. There is however a thin line between knowledge and execution. That thin line is laced with a few thorns, which must be removed. One of such is the costly assumption of mastery.

A large percentage of social media enthusiasts know him. That senior officer performed well until he was asked a question he thought he knew. One of the interviewers asked:

“What is the website of *****?”

In a few seconds, his mind performed a scan, launched into his information technology faculty but fetched something that looked like the answer. Rather than disagree with ego in its fullness, he stuttered, and answered… You know what his answer was! His statements had a spurious correlation. He had an idea but he was unsure of the precise answer. It was a national issue in his country.

Stop assuming mastery. Certainty is key to execution. Why execute what you do not really know? You should go after knowledge in its fullness. It’s a costly assumption to think that you know something, when the best of it exists in your mental faculty as a fuzzy thought. How well do you know? A great barrier to executing is the assumption of mastery. Remove that thorn every time you learn. The assumption of mastery is a costly one. It has the potential to disgrace. It squeezes life out of your execution efforts. Before trying to execute, embrace certainty.