Imagine you’re learning a new language, and you find a word you don’t know. If you look it up, you’ll understand it the next time you see it. But if you don’t look it up, you’ll never know what it means, and the gap in your knowledge will stay there. If you keep ignoring these gaps, you won’t get better at the language.

​This idea works for everything we learn. If we don’t try to fill in what we don’t know, we stay confused. To improve and make better choices, we need to find out and fix what we don’t know.

Think of your job as a way to keep learning. If you go to a meeting and don’t understand some things, you have two choices:

By choosing the second option, you’ll know more next time. If you always fill in your knowledge gaps, you’ll become smarter and better at your job.

Sometimes, we wait for others to tell us what to do. In school, teachers told us what we needed to learn. At work, there isn’t a set list of things to learn. We often wait for our bosses to tell us what we need to know.

To do well, we need to make our own plan for learning. Don’t wait for knowledge to come to you—go look for it. You can use tools like ChatGPT to quickly learn new things. The more you take charge of learning, the more you’ll know.

Knowledge builds up over time. The sooner you start filling in your gaps, the more you’ll learn as time goes by. This means that the more you learn, the smarter you become.

When I began reading a lot of books, I didn’t feel smarter right away. But after a few months, I realised I had learned a lot. That’s how knowledge works—it builds up slowly until you notice how much you’ve learned.

By always filling in your knowledge gaps, you’ll know more, make better choices, and do better in your job. Start today and watch how much you can learn and grow!