If we were to ask successful people what their respective ventures have taught them, some of the things they would probably mention would be: The tireless team. Great ideas. Ethics at work. Being determined. The desire to dare. Collaborative team. Great partners. Access to capital etc.
All of these stand, but there is something that distinguishes successful people from the crowd. Inc.Magazine contacted an extremely successful entrepreneur, who preferred to remain anonymous. The most important thing the business has learned is:
SE NUK DI.
Undoubtedly, Inc. points out, this approach sounds strange when, after all, experience is the best teacher, especially when the result is success. Yet it seems that Socrates' paradox - I know I know nothing - applies to success for many reasons.
As an argument can be mentioned the case of a study done on doctors in 2005, published in ournal of Internal Medicine. The study showed that doctors who had been given challenging clinical cases were able to have an accurate diagnosis two-thirds of the time. But when the same doctors were asked to analyze the initial diagnosis and consider alternative options - in short, to imagine that they really did not "know" - their accuracy improved by 40%.
Jeff Bezos says the main indicator of high intelligence is the willingness to change the mind. In short, these successful people wake up every day thinking they know very little, which makes them improve, have new results, and revise and reshape their way of seeing things.
"I know nothing" helps everyone to be open to new things and knowledge.
