If You’re The Smartest Person In The Room, Do This ASAP

hey there it’s David H Lawrence the 17th
I got an email this morning from someone
who’s like how do you know all this
stuff I’m never gonna learn any of this
stuff you know like stuff and you find
stuff and you share stuff a lot of stuff
but I thought to myself immediately well
I’m okay thank you I’m sure that you
know a bunch of stuff
mr. email writer that you share with
others I don’t know exactly what your
expert in but you know you have
certainly life experience and you know
it’s it’s not a race and when we start
to look at it as a race we tend to start
to look and see how far ahead or behind
someone we are and when you have
something to offer you find yourself
being of service to other people that’s
a wonderful feeling and I feel that way
a lot sometimes you are saying to
somebody who’s who’s giving you
information wait wait what you can do
that seriously I find myself doing that
a lot with people who know a lot about
the stuff that I’m interested in more
than I do and it depends on where you
are in the process but sometimes you’ll
find yourself in a room where the people
in the room could use your help or could
benefit from your experience and then
sometimes you find yourself in a room
where the people in there know a heck of
a lot more than than than you do and you
can find yourself kind of struggling to
keep up even to the point where you go
oh yeah yeah I knew I knew that I knew
that when you really didn’t know that
but if you find yourself more often in a
place where you’re saying to yourself
yeah I knew that you go to an event or
you take a class or you you go to
somebody’s speaking engagement maybe
you’re at a convention and somebody’s on
the schedule and go home
I’m interested in that I wonder what
level
teaching it
and you go and you find yourself gone
yeah you know I wish I wish I knew that
this was what they were saying because
this is stuff I already know it happened
to me a few weeks ago at a union event
about podcasting I thought oh well great
maybe the union will have some new like
maybe they’re gonna be covering
podcasting in a new contract I don’t
know but it turned out to be hey this is
called podcasting and you can do this
and you know like I I found myself in a
situation that I kind of
I kind of felt embarrassed about I was
like sitting there and getting a little
frustrated that there wasn’t anything
challenging me that there wasn’t
anything going on and it brought to mind
that if you’re in a position where
you’re saying okay check
I knew that check I got that check I I
know that but I know a better version of
that if you find yourself in that
position a lot because it’s a
comfortable position to be in you know
you’re confident I know what I’m doing
if you find yourself in that position a
lot I have a challenge for you and that
is challenge yourself if you find that
you’re in the room and you are the
smartest person in the room or the most
knowledgeable person in the room or in
that you know area where most of the
people there are still learning the
stuff that you already know
first of all certainly help them if they
ask for it and if they want it and if
they can use it but find yourself
another room find yourself a room where
you don’t know everything
where you are you know a little confused
a little challenged and can stretch I
mean that’s the way you learn in all
cases you’re presented with something
that you don’t know and you’re like okay
I want to learn this so tell me more
about this find yourself in those rooms
more often
and you’ll feel a lot better about where
you are on your journey and you know the
accomplishment that you feel when you
when you get to know something and it’s
like oh that’s how that works
is to me just gold it’s just gold so if
you find yourself the smartest person in
most of the rooms that you walk in find
another room be challenged be baffled be
scrunchy you make your eyes scrunch it
what is he saying
wait wait what raise your hand ask a
question get more knowledge
don’t let that thirst for knowledge ever
be slate I just love learning new things
I remember one morning last year I
decided I was gonna figure out how to do
BOTS you know conversation BOTS
messaging BOTS on Facebook Messenger and
I just set aside a day and I started
looking online for resources and I
talked to some friends who knew how to
do it and this wasn’t the kind of thing
where friends were calling me and going
how do you do bots and I was able to
tell them it was like I didn’t I really
didn’t know anything I learned from
scratch and by the end of the day I had
built my first bot and it felt awesome
it felt great that that moment of
accomplishment certainly it feels good
when you can help other people you have
the knowledge you need to help other
people and it feels great to be
respected as someone who is resourceful
and willing to help maybe a little bit
wise I don’t know it feels great when
people say that to me
but what feels even better is when I’m
in a room with people that know a lot
more than I do and I’m learning from
them so I challenge you to do that what
are your thoughts on that wherever
you’re watching this video let me know
in the in the comments below are you
comfortable in a situation where you’re
kind of struggling to keep up or does
that make you really like anxious and
are you also one of those people that
loves being in a situation where you can
help other people you know what’s going
on and so you hang out with people you
can help I’d love to know what your
thoughts are in the comments but
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there I’m David H Lawrence the 17th I so
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I will talk to you tomorrow.