When I was a brand new Flight Instructor I learned a lot from my first student. He was a nuclear engineer getting his Private Pilots license. He said,” If you don’t know the answer to something I ask, don’t BS me. We can learn it together.” To this day I’m always learning.
““I don’t know” is a perfectly acceptable answer, unless perhaps you’re getting paid to know the answers, and then maybe “I don’t know” isn’t your best response.”
I’m going to argue that if you don’t know the answer it’s always better to say you don’t know. After years as a consultant, where I was sort of being paid to know the answers, I saw way too many people pretend to know the answer when they didn’t and it always was a disservice.
Point taken, and no argument from me, lol! I loved the responses I received from you as well as a few others on this subject. Thanks for sharing your thoughts! 💞
When I was working as a Charge Nurse if someone asked me a question I didn’t know the answer to I would say, “I don’t know but let me find out for you”. As you said, we can’t know everything.
When I was a brand new Flight Instructor I learned a lot from my first student. He was a nuclear engineer getting his Private Pilots license. He said,” If you don’t know the answer to something I ask, don’t BS me. We can learn it together.” To this day I’m always learning.
““I don’t know” is a perfectly acceptable answer, unless perhaps you’re getting paid to know the answers, and then maybe “I don’t know” isn’t your best response.”
I’m going to argue that if you don’t know the answer it’s always better to say you don’t know. After years as a consultant, where I was sort of being paid to know the answers, I saw way too many people pretend to know the answer when they didn’t and it always was a disservice.
Point taken, and no argument from me, lol! I loved the responses I received from you as well as a few others on this subject. Thanks for sharing your thoughts! 💞
I use this often in my sometimes complex world. 😊
That is a great question that warrants a great response. Let me work on that and get back to you.
That's a nice response. Actually it's a "great response!" :)
I’ve already used it twice today and the day is young! Lol 😂
That's funny! Keep us posted. 💖
When I was working as a Charge Nurse if someone asked me a question I didn’t know the answer to I would say, “I don’t know but let me find out for you”. As you said, we can’t know everything.
I love this response. Thank you!! 💖
Oh, that's a perfect story for this post, and exactly my point. Thanks for sharing that!