Make your knowledge reachable

Career · Little Light original

Halfway through explaining your work, you notice the person across the table has stopped asking questions. You know the subject well. They know another part of the business just as well. Yet the words that feel precise to you are leaving them outside the conversation. So you begin again with an example. You explain what the decision would change for their team. They tell you something you had not considered, and suddenly the problem becomes clearer to both of you. Expertise can become more generous as it grows. You need fewer impressive words because you understand which ones matter. You can make a complicated idea accessible without making it less accurate. That is a career worth developing: being someone whose knowledge helps other people think, rather than someone they hesitate to question. The years you spent learning become useful in a new way when another person can finally put them to work.

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