I Don’t Know
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What's going on, my friends? Welcome back to the Ryan League podcast, where we love to keep things short and sweet for you each and every week. Today's episode is entitled, I Don't Know. I don't know. Which is what I believe a lot of us feel all the time. But we also feel afraid to say it out loud. I came across a particular word in a book about a month ago that I found to be very interesting. And the author, Mark Batterson, to be exact, introduced me to a word entitled ultracrepidarianism. Ultra-crepidarianism. Look it up. It's fascinating. Ultra-crepidarianism is the habit of offering opinions, judgment, or advice on matters completely outside of one's area of expertise or knowledge. Ultra-crepidarianism.
Now, you might be thinking to yourself, I know an ultra crepidarian for sure. And it's interesting, you know, there's this show on ESPN that's been on there for a long time now called First Take. You know, it's where you've got. sports analysts, former professional athletes on a show giving their take on particular subjects. And it's entertaining and you see a bunch of reels on social media from it. And again, people are arguing back and forth and everybody has a take. And I think that format has actually somehow, some way leaked into real life It's actually become culturally expected that you walk into a room, a dinner, a group chat, a comment section, and you have to have a take. And you have to have a take on everything.
Politics, parenting, the economy, everything. foreign policy, nutrition, crypto, AI, whatever the latest controversy is, whatever trial you saw a headline about that you actually don't even follow, you're expected to have a take. And if you don't have a take, people look at you like something's wrong. Like, you don't have an opinion on that?
What is ultracrepidarianism and why does it matter?
No.
No.
And I'm at peace with it. And here's what I've begun to really notice a lot is that, you know, we live in a day and age where obviously chat GPT can summarize any topic in 30 seconds. And I think because we can access information so quickly, perhaps we've confused access with expertise. I mean, I can Google the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for 10 minutes and suddenly feel qualified to debate it at dinner. But reading a summary is not the same as having understanding. Having access to information is not the same as having authority on a subject. I mean, let's just be honest for just a minute. We got some friends that got chat GPT that has made them believe that they have a PhD. No, you do not. And yet, my friends, the pressure is real.
Someone brings up a topic and you feel like you need to weigh in. You feel like silence means ignorance and like not having a take means you're uninformed or disengaged or you don't care. And so what we can end up doing is we can sort of cobble together a half-baked opinion from a headline we skimmed and a reel we watched on Instagram. And then we present it like it's conviction. And now we find ourselves in a debate we were never qualified to enter. And I just keep wondering, like, why do we do this to ourselves? Because I think it's because we've made having a take a personality trait. Like the person with the boldest opinion gets the most attention. The loudest voice in the room gets the most airtime.
And we've somehow internalized that. We think if we don't have something to say, we don't have value. But that's a lie. Sometimes the most valuable person in the room is the one who can say, I don't know. I don't have enough information on that subject to have a strong thought on that subject. I don't know. You know what's funny? This is fascinating to me. We feel pressure to be a know-it-all. Like, we feel pressure to be the smartest person in the room. But what blows my mind is that while we all have pressure to be a know-it-all, we all hate being around know-it-alls. Think about that. The person at the dinner who has an opinion on everything, who corrects everyone, who can't let a single topic pass without inserting their expertise, that person is exhausting.
And nobody wants to sit next to them.
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