1. Your knowledge has value if you share it with the intention of doing good and not harm. Others may think your knowledge isn’t worth sharing but face those challenges. Sharing your knowledge for social benefit always makes it more valuable, not less.
2. Every person feels stupid sometimes. Every person. Everywhere. We all devalue our knowledge at times and we all get embarrassed. Remember the value of sharing your knowledge for good and when you feel stupid remember, “this, too, shall pass.”
3. Having curiosity about learning something new creates new knowledge. Embrace curiosity and be open to the knowledge of others. Exchanging knowledge and learning something new breaks down barriers.
4. Every day, you will feel like you have forgotten something. Maybe you’ve been too rushed. Maybe you feel like you don’t have enough time. Don’t be too harsh on yourself. Especially if forgetting has caused what seems like a mistake and you feel stupid. Go back and read #2 again. Apologize if you need to and then move on. Seriously. Just move on and let it go.
5. The knowledge sharing, the listening, the talking, the learning, the connections and the surprises. It’s all part of it. And it’s all worth it to create new knowledge.
6. Knowledge is never perfect. Ever. But always worth sharing to create better knowledge.
7. You will never regret sharing knowledge if it helps to improve someone else’s knowledge. Except for all of those times you second guess whether you have made a difference in making the world a better place. Although it may only be in a small way, every bit of knowledge shared for benefit is better than knowledge shared to harm. Overall, this is what counts in the end.
8. Be open to the knowledge of others. Other people who are very different from you will teach you something new, how to look more deeply at life and how to live and learn more fully.
9. Look for knowledge in everything. You’ll find it in the middle of the busy. Or under the ridiculous. Or hanging out with the strange. Knowledge is like that. It’s in the middle of everything. It’s completely unpredictable. And it will surprise you when you’re not expecting it.
10. Having knowledge of “the truth” is a myth. Knowledge isn’t black or white. Knowledge is a full range of colors and blends. Strive for knowledge sharing to create new and always changing knowledge instead of “the truth”and trust your own knowledge sharing for social benefit to move knowledge forward in an ever-changing way.
