When is the last time you heard somebody say "I don't know"?
Why won't people say "I don't know"?
It seems that nowadays everybody is an expert on everything. Rather than getting a mediocre explanation or solution on a topic that somebody does not know anything, or very little about, wouldn't you rather get an honest "I don't know". How refreshing would that be? I don't know, but let me look into it or let me do some research.
In this new world of Google search everybody truly believes that by reading a one or two paragraph excerpt in Wikipedia you will become an expert or can talk about something with authority.
Don't get me wrong, I have and do use Google search for all kind of things to get answers and learn but...
Is the job environment so competitive that we are afraid to admit we don't know something?
I don't know.
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