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SproutMusingTimeless🌱 living· 2 min read2026-04-21
- Ideally: when you know something, be bold (act like you know), when you don't, be humble (act like you don't), and when you're 50% sure, be 50% bold and 50% humble
- But reality isn't that simple. Some people lean humble, some lean bold.
- Table
- Know
- Act like you know
- Risk looking like — or actually becoming — someone who pretends to know things they don't
- The kind of person who can change the world
- Act like you don't know
- Exemplary, broadly well-liked
- May not change the world, but can make a real contribution
- Act like you know
- Don't know
- Act like you know
- Easy to confuse with someone who actually knows and acts accordingly
- A harm to society
- Act like you don't know
- A good citizen?
- Hard to make a major contribution to the world
- Act like you know
- Know
- Looking at society, it feels like there are so many people who act like they know things when they don't.
- If you can't persuade someone about something, you don't fully know that thing — not 100%.