In the last few weeks, I've been advocating for promotion through education: be the expert; teach; build on trust.
I haven't always felt this way. In the early days, especially, I believed knowledge to be a gem in other ways: concrete, solid, edged, finite. The last one had me worried most.
In other words, "What if I run out of stuff to write about?"
I imagined, one Sunday afternoon, sitting at my computer, fingers hovering...and nothing to draw from. I imagined my knowledge to be exhaustible, and my experience almost ended.
In the most dangerous trap of all, I believed that I knew a little bit about everything, and that connections made between subjects required only multiplication to calculate; that they, too, would eventually run out.
I was wrong. You'll never run out of things to learn and, ergo, things to teach. When you think you know a lot, or enough....you'll be wrong about something, and that correction will turn the whole volcano inside out.
It's funny, in hindsight, to consider that I was writing 'diets' based on caloric intake when I struggled with this concept. I was using a box to teach people to squat. I was wondering why, when new female clients saw chains draped over a chalky barbell, they'd never return.
The danger is NOT running out of material. Don't worry.
Put it out there. You'll be knocked off, ripped off, have strips TORN off, and brushed off (perhaps the worst option.) Yes, you will. And it won't matter, because you'll still be ahead.
"The moving hand writes, and having writ moves on. Neither all your tears, nor all your wit, shall lure it back to erase half a line, nor change a word of it."
When you have a great idea, share it. Please. While its tracks are being dissected, the beast moves on.
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