How do you accept "I don't know"?
If you search, you will find the "answer" immediately.
But what is really important is not "knowing the answer".
It may be "how to accept yourself that you don't know".
The era when not knowing was "shame"
"Don't you know that?"
When you were a child, were you afraid of being told that, and did you ever pretend to know?
The tendency to feel "embarrassed" about what you don't know persists in both school and workplace.
But is it really so?
Because AI "knows everything" now
ChatGPT and other AI give us answers with an overwhelming amount of knowledge and speed.
But once you get used to it...
- I feel anxious when I have something I don't know.
- Impatient to "know the answer right away"
- You will not find value in what you "don't know"
In this way, we tend to eliminate ''I don't know'.
I don't know, so I think. Because you think, you become yourself.
The state of "not knowing" is the entrance to thoughts.
- I can't find the answer, so I try to make a hypothesis with my own head.
- Read books to borrow other people's perspectives
- Sometimes leave it alone and wait for the time to ripen
It is in this kind of "unknowing" time that your own questions and values grow.
Practice Accepting the Unknown
How to gradually accept the state of "not knowing" ──
- The courage to say "I don't know"
- Time to think about your own thoughts without research
- The feeling that it's okay to make mistakes
In this way, I want to be a person who continues to have "questions" rather than "answers".
Conclusion
It is important to know.
But more than that, I think that people who can accept what they don't know are strong.
Don't be afraid of "not knowing",
It's interesting because you don't know.
If you can see the world in that way, it may be a little easier to live.