You Know More Than you Think you Know

This is what my professor told me as I stressed about finals week. Let's just say that the stress + the idea of being off for approximately a week and a half without having to read (I ended up doing a little for fun... maybe I am a nerd interesting) and not having to write has led me to drag making this last post of my first second quarter as a PhD students. Long story short, I'M BACK BI$H$*!

A IN ORG PSYC

Remember how the winter quarter for the first years in my program is the hardest. One is because it is dragged out as this late blog might be and the class Organizational Psychology covers a lot and demands a lot. Well coming into the class feeling as though I didn't know enough welp... left the class with an A. Guess I know more than I think I know.

I don't have much to write but even if you don't know you will know. I have currently been reading a new book (click the button below) and it talks about how people who think they know everything actually don't know that much. Kinda funny because it is the reverse of this blog's title.

Book: Think Again

Expanding What we Think we Know

When observing the new Dean of the College of Education and Human Sciences she emphasized how she is willing to learn more about what she thinks she knows. At first, I was like girl be confident, stand on what you know, say it with ya chest, you get the point. Yet, I realized that she knows that there is always more to learn, and if she comes in thinking she knows all she limits herself and the possibilities of giving this college what it needs.

I feel that in life. No matter how many times I attempt to do a new diet, make a workout plan, do my makeup, and so much more there is always something else that I didn't know. Such as oatmeal is good for you but some say it isn't the best breakfast meal. That carbs aren't good but even so you shouldn't eat them after 3 pm. That fasting can help you losse weight especially when you don't eat past 5 pm, ugh the list goes on and on. It has driven me so crazy. Anyways, the more we think we know the less likely we are to believe new things.

About 27 minutes ago I was scrolling on Instagram and saw an ad with a woman with Down syndrome. She kept repeating situations where people assumed that she couldn't do something so she never did. She ended with "assume I can" about all these things.

Note: Click on the image to watch the full ad :)

I feel as though that is a testament to everyone and even me to my convos. If I came into this program thinking or more accurately assuming that I knew everything maybe I wouldn't learn a lot. Maybe feeling as though I don't know a lot isn't seen as a crutch but a reason to go up the later. It is having curiosity. Leaving room for people to be. Much like the woman wanting to live on her own, drink a margarita, and all these other exciting things... the people around her never allowed her to take those steps. So yes, assume that you can, that you know more than you think you know, and oddly that you can learn more about what you think you know. Everything changes, especially us. And more than anything, who reallly f&^*$%g knows.

Xoxo, assuming I can learn more about what I don't know and especially can learn more about what I think I know... and yup that is the excitement behind being, a 23rd week PhD student