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It didn’t take long for me to realize that this approach wasn’t helping—it was hurting my credibility.
One day, a colleague gave me a simple piece of advice: “It’s okay to say ‘I don’t know.’ Just follow it up with ‘But I’ll find out.’” So I started doing exactly that.
To my surprise, people respected me more for it. Instead of scrambling for an answer, I’d acknowledge what I didn’t know and then make sure to get back to them with the right information.
That small shift made a big difference in how people saw me—because honesty builds trust faster than pretending ever could.
