Can Ignorance Prevent Success?
So often, we have most of what it takes, but one teeny weeny bit is missing!
Three very simple words — I didn’t know — summed up my failure at things that I attempted but didn’t achieve. I didn’t have sufficient information to apply my skill in the right places at the right time in the right way.
There were gaps in my knowledge that led to that failure. I may, for instance, have known how to write a good article, but I certainly didn’t know where to sell them. And while I may have been an excellent worker in many of my jobs, I didn’t realize that making friends at the office was part of the job. Sometimes what I didn’t know appears to be obvious in retrospect, but at the time, I simply didn’t know.
One often hears older people saying, “If I knew then what I know now, things would have been very different,” and that is true.
Goals are achieved as a result of many different factors working together, and a lack of knowledge and skill in one or two areas is all that is required for a goal not to be reached.
