Working Up

by Dwayne Phillips

There is no substitute for knowing what you are doing.

I love working with people who know what they are doing. They come to the workplace, see challenges in front of them, and eagerly plow into the work.

Short pause – I don’t live in LaLaLand. I live and work in the real world. Some of the above-described people actually exist and work in the real world. It is a pleasure to work with them.

One more thing: sometimes, “knowing what you are doing” means “you know how to learn how to do things that you don’t know how to do.”

That is the best “knowing what you are doing” knowledge: knowing how to behave in the face of the unknown. It is the attitude of, “Look, something unknown! Learning will be such great fun!”