No path

Of course there are times when you don’t know what you don’t know.

The trick is to recognise the feeling – when you’re out of your depth, out of your experience, seeing things you don’t recognise, working with luck and blind faith, floundering not only with the terminology but with the concepts that drive it, smiling or frowning when you’re not sure why.

Recognise you’re deep in the woods with no path to follow.

Recognise the feeling and do something with it.

Before the next step: put edges around the problem and shrink it to size. If you’re relaxed about timescales, read a book (or ten), catch some training, do the research. If you’re in a hurry or not a book learner, call for help.

Whatever your method, find some expert knowledge and tap it for the good stuff.

Skippy strategy: When you don’t know, find some help.

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