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The Illusion of Knowledge | 5 Minute Friday

Eddie’s got another quote. This one is attributed to historian Daniel J. Boorstin.

“The greatest obstacle to discovery is ignorance. It is the illusion of knowledge.”

Sound applicable? We think so.

Eddie looks back to the early days of the podcast. We thought we knew a lot.

We did not.

Fast-forward five years, we now find ourselves fully aware of our ignorance.

Our advice based on our experience? Admit that you don’t know much. Ask the stupid questions. You won’t know more unless you ask more questions.

Don’t get trapped in arrogant ignorance.

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Duration:: 6m
Broadcast on:: 21 Jun 2024
Audio Format:: mp3

You know how you're always saying that you wish you knew as much as I did about Bluebeam? I know, I think you said that. Do I remember it? Yeah, you could go to Bluebeam community and they could probably make you better at it. I mean, yeah, I mean, I always like to get better at Bluebeam for sure. Yes, good as I am. So you could go there and increase your knowledge, grow your network, ask people questions, have them ask you things. It's just a really cool place. Don't want to miss it. How do I get to such a community? Go to community.bluebeam.com and you will be off to the races with a group of people that are there to help you get better. community.bluebeam.com Welcome to Five Minute Friday, everybody. Where we share our best tips and tricks to help you get just a little bit better every day. Eddie, what you got for us this week, dude? I got another quote. Oh boy. Got another good one still riding that train, baby. These are good quotes. They are the end of it. This one is this one is a good quote. Yeah. And and I've just ball balled out title today. It's just very good. It's a very good title. Yes. All right. The greatest obstacle to discovery is ignorance. It is the illusion of knowledge. I don't think we have this happening in our industry at all. I don't think that happens in construction. The illusion of knowledge. So I will call you back to when we started the podcast. Yeah. And we hadn't really spoken with anybody. We didn't get out too much. It was supposed to be one of the points of this whole thing as detailers do. They don't really go out much. We were under the hood a lot. Yes. We did a lot of complaining. Yeah, we did. We had a lot of things that we thought we knew. And I in that point of my career, so five years back, feel like I would have been much more likely to tell you, I knew how to fix it. Yep. I knew, I knew what to tell you to do. And that it just felt like, just handed to me. I got it. Yeah. I understand it. Fast forward. Fast forward. Five years. How are you feeling about that now? Oh, no. Not at all. Like, yeah, I went back to the same thing, dude. It was like, when I first read that quote, I'm like, my gosh, like, yeah, this is a, we could totally relate to this because when we started the podcast, yeah, we had this illusion of feeling like we knew everything and knew exactly how to fix the industry. But after talking to over 200 plus people, you start to realize, well, I don't think I have this thing all figured out. Yeah. Which sparked more curiosity because you're like, all right, well, I do want to figure it out. Yes. And so I think the call to action today would be be more stupid. Larry King. Do you like that one? I am more stupid. It is one of the foundational tenets of the show, right? Is that we're going to ask. Have we talked about this in a while? Basic questions, right? Have we talked about this in a while? The Larry King thing. I don't know if we have on air. Maybe we have. We've talked about it. Okay. So we're going to talk about it again. We've got to talk about it now. We've got to talk about it now. And we've got to talk about it now. Just in case you missed it. Sorry if we're just broken records here. But when we first started the show, we were just kind of like doing some research on like, hey, how do we interview better? You know, it was pretty hilarious. Great Google. Like how to interview. How to be podcast or question, Mark. Yeah. Yeah. So one of the things that came up was Larry King. So there's this interview with Larry King and apparently Larry had one of his friends come over to him at a party one time and his friend just looked at him and said, you know, Larry, you know why you're such a great interviewer? And Larry's like, ah, why? You know, enlighten me. Why am I such a great interviewer? And he just looks at Larry dead in the eye and he just says, it's because you're stupid, Larry. It's because you're stupid. And that was the greatest insight and to interviewing and to being curious. It's just play the stupid person in the room. And that's okay. That's okay. You know, just ask the stupid question. You're going to learn a heck of a lot more if you do and you'll have better conversations as a result of that too. Yeah. There's this. You don't have to know it all. You don't. It's best if you don't. You don't and you won't and you will know it all. You will never know. And coming back to the heart of this quote, being stuck in ignorance, but not having that knowledge of what you don't know is what just kind of traps you. Yeah. And so one of the things that we're trying to do here and one of the things that we've had done for us through this is we've got an education that education has come through asking maybe some basic questions at times, even infantile questions at times where we are just, we don't understand, but we had somebody here that helped us understand. Yeah. And it opened the world. It really opened things up and made us understand, wow, the problems a little more complex than that little pocket that I used to occupy and just very kind of smugly think I could fix it all. Right. The call is for curiosity, for learning, asking questions. Don't remain in your ignorance and be happy there, but learn, grow, move forward. Don't be content where you're at and don't be prideful. Don't be too proud to ask a good question. You really got quiet there. You're just really kind of trying to bring it down, just bring it down into this kind of fireside chat you a little bit, just a little bit of a little bit of a sidebar. I don't have a radio voice at all, but I can't say I was bringing it down to a radio voice or anything. I have a really soothing voice. Neither of us do. Neither of us do. We have a face for podcasts. We do. Why we're on YouTube? I have no idea. No idea. No idea. Anyway, guys, I know it's easy for us, but go be a little bit more stupid today and go build something awesome, but don't be too stupid when you're building this thing because you can fall down. That wouldn't be good. That would be bad. That'd be bad. a lot. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.