“At the Northside Festival this year, Dennis Crowley admitted in his session with Jerry Colonna that one of the toughest challenges that he has faced as an entrepreneur was having everyone looking to you, counting on you, investors betting on you—and feeling like you’re supposed to know everything. Sometimes—a lot of times—he said, you have to admit that you don’t know what to do, but that you’re going to find someone smart who knows the answer.”
Charlie O’Donnell
It’s ok to admit you have no idea what you’re doing. In fact, it’s probably a good thing.
I remember when I first started in advertising. For the first few weeks, I was waiting for the handbook which told me how to do my job. And then I realized it didn’t exist. It definitely didn’t exist. Charlie O’Donnell, a partner at Brooklyn Bridge Ventures, writes about how admitting you have no idea is actually OK - and what to do about it.
