Jumping in Puddles

18 months ago I stepped away from a great day job, which I knew backwards, to simply see what else was out there and where I could take my skills.

Yesterday I started reading a book called A More Beautiful Question by Warren Berger, referred to me by one of the amazing new people I have met over that18 months. And I heard this:

“One of the many interesting and appealing things about questioning is that it often has an inverse relationship to expertise. Such that within their own subject areas, experts are apt to be poor questioners. Frank Lloyd Wright put it well when he remarked that an expert is someone who has stopped thinking because he knows. If you know, there’s no reason to ask. Yet if you don’t ask, then you are relying on expert knowledge that is certainly limited, maybe outdated and could be altogether wrong.”

I’ve spent 18 months diving into areas beyond my area of expertise - anthropology, history, complex systems thinking, marketing, business strategy, behavioral science and yes, even physics.

What I now have is so many more great questions and a growing network of fascinating people who are exploring the world differently.

I simply can’t recommend enough the joy of jumping in puddles - my personal metaphor for getting out of one’s comfort zone and exploring this world.