Just Admit It: Sometimes, You Don’t Know

I promise you, it’s not as scary as it seems

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Have you ever been totally convinced about something that you later found out wasn’t true?

Have you ever thought something happened that actually didn’t, or been wrong about someone’s motivations? And don’t even try to get out of this next one, because I know we’re all guilty of it.

That thing? Thinking we know what someone else is thinking.

Have you ever realized how many problems this causes in your daily life?

Until I started doing a form of meditation called The Work a few years ago, I had very little understanding of how often I made assumptions about the world around me — and about the people in it.

But the more I do this Work, the more I realize just how little I truly know. As it turns out, I don’t know everything! In fact, I can’t really know anything.

Instead of that being a source of stress for me, oddly enough, my experience has been the opposite. Admitting you don’t know is actually a huge relief.

As Byron Katie, founder of The Work often says:

“‘I don’t know’ is my favourite position.”