Everything You Know Is Obvious

Shift-Starters

Where in your work do you hold yourself back, discounting your knowledge and experience, thinking that everybody knows what you already know? Do you often think that the wisdom you possess is simply obvious, so you hold yourself back from sharing it with your clients, peers, and the wider world? These thoughts occur to many of us so frequently that they prevent us from sharing our gifts, talents, and wisdom with the world. We tell ourselves we don’t have anything worthy to say or teach. We never put up the coaching programs or workshops we said we would because everyone already knows what we have to share with the world.

In this episode, I reveal the curse that many high-achievers, top-performers, and lifelong learners suffer from - and how you can move through it. I describe our tendency to undervalue our knowledge and expertise and explain how this tendency prevents us from working with others and creating valuable content. I also discuss the importance of taking risks in testing whether the knowledge you possess is simply common and underscore the power of asking “why?”

“Remind yourself that you have so much more to give to this world than you are giving yourself credit for.” - Erin Baker

This week on Shift-Starters:

• A clapping experiment and the curse of knowledge
• The curse of knowledge and how it can impede entrepreneurs and leaders from creating and sharing our gifts with the world
• How we undervalue our knowledge and what our experience tells us
• How the curse of knowledge affects me in my everyday life
• A strategy for getting past the curse of knowledge
• Testing how obvious your knowledge and experience are
• Pulling an idea and creating social media content, workshops, or courses around your knowledge and ways of being
• The value of surrounding yourself with beginners

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