All of the answers

How do you solve hard problems? Stare at the question until it just magically answers itself?

I try that, probably too often.

The times I get actual answers though is usually when I ask for help… it took me a really long time to admit to myself that the answers didn’t just exist inside my own head.

When I started my business in 2005, I definitely did have all the answers.

At least until I realised there were a whole bunch of questions no one had told me I needed to ask, like:

“When these clients – who have kick-started your business so beautifully – disappear, where will you find some more to replace them?”

or

“How much does tax cost?”

Over time, other people helped me answer those questions. People who had asked these and many others, and found answers either through experience, or (possibly) through asking someone themselves.

It’s definitely cool to admit you don’t have answers… I actually think it’s quite admirable.

When I see an expert respond “I’m not sure, let me get back to you” I just think that takes serious guts.

Far better to admit that than make up something simply to have a response. That’s an “expert”, not an expert.