It was embarrassing.
Like the first time walking into the boxing gym, except I thought I was good at this.
How could I not be good at it?
I’d worked at Goldman Sachs for some eight years at this point.
Hundreds, thousands of meetings I had attended.
Books, decks, presentations, whatever you call it, I’d pulled together hundreds maybe thousands of these too.
We thought we knew exactly what we were doing.
But now this legendary business magnate was schooling us like juniors.
Don’t know
A most wonderful and also most scary concept in life is you don’t know what you don’t know.
For years maybe even your entire life you can be doing something a certain way thinking that you know what you’re doing.
And then one day, maybe when it’s too late to even correct, you learn that what you were doing was terribly wrong, or at least you could have been doing it much better.
It’s never your fault, you can only know what you know.
And unfortunately, like a terrible drunk dancer at a wedding thinking that they’re lighting up the floor, you may never know.
In a worst case there’s nobody to even point it out because they also don’t know what you don’t know.
