All I Know: (Audio)
Why do people feel compelled to unload their entire database of knowledge on everyone around them?
Too often people are compelled to tell everything they know ...about everything they know. Click To Tweet
It’s not just the lesson about how to bake a cake, but the history behind the cake, where the flour comes from and how it’s made, prove the chicken came before the egg, and explain how vegetables can make “oil” that you buy in a jug. Give ’em time and they will simply bore you over and again!
No longer is it a story, but an S-T-O-R-Y!
Sort of like a run-on sentence. Some never know when to end, or what should never have been started, or when TMI (too much information) is shared. Until it’s too late! I mean, after all, I don’t need to read the entire encyclopedia, do I?
Just thinking today about learning how to control sharing too much, too quickly. We should learn to let things evolve over time and let pertinent facts reign… even if it means there are nuggets of knowledge and wisdom that never gets shared!
In fact, perhaps the best way to share is to give what was asked for, or what the moment requires. If you make it interesting enough then an RFI (Request for Information) will be presented!
Three big “If’s”…
- If you are sharing and you notice the audience is getting way too quiet. Pause…. Take their pulse. Give someone time to insert a comment or ask a question.
- If you are sharing and you notice a glazed look is staring you back in the face…. Call for life support!
- If someone turns you off and tunes you off, and wanders off into left field…. Let them go… You’ve lost them as a recipient of your wisdom. That’s when you know you have shared too much information…
Another thought from the Lessons Learned thinking process!