{"id":50,"date":"2019-04-15T19:40:32","date_gmt":"2019-04-15T19:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/akhmees.info\/en\/?p=50"},"modified":"2019-04-15T19:40:32","modified_gmt":"2019-04-15T19:40:32","slug":"good-things-happens-when-you-not-concerned-about-sounding-smart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/akhmees.info\/en\/2019\/04\/15\/good-things-happens-when-you-not-concerned-about-sounding-smart\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Things Happens When You Not Concerned About Sounding Smart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-52 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/akhmees.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/100WordsSmart-786x1024-786x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"834\" srcset=\"https:\/\/akhmees.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/100WordsSmart-786x1024.jpg 786w, https:\/\/akhmees.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/100WordsSmart-786x1024-230x300.jpg 230w, https:\/\/akhmees.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/100WordsSmart-786x1024-768x1001.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.writeathome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/100WordsSmart-786x1024.jpg\">Image Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>One day I was listening to an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiehackers.com\/podcast\/049-josh-kaufman-of-the-personal-mba\">interview<\/a> on Indie Hackers podcast where Courtland Allen hosts Josh Kaufman of The Personal MBA book. Josh said the following phrase and it stuck with me:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong> \u201cNot being too concerned about sounding smart\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>he said it while telling his story while writing <a href=\"https:\/\/personalmba.com\/\">The Personal MBA book<\/a>. What he just did in the book is simplifying a lot of business jargons in layman terms that can be understood by anybody.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I thought about the following questions when I thought about the phrase:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What would I do differently\u00a0If not being too concerned about sounding smart?<\/li>\n<li>Will that allows me to ask better questions?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There were multiple times where I didn\u2019t ask a\u00a0 question because I was afraid of how I am going to be perceived.<\/p>\n<p><strong>So tell me, what are you going to do differently if you not being too concerned about sounding smart?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image Source One day I was listening to an interview on Indie Hackers podcast where Courtland Allen hosts Josh Kaufman of The Personal MBA book. Josh said the following phrase and it stuck with me: \u201cNot being too concerned about sounding smart\u201d he said it while telling his story while writing The Personal MBA book. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/akhmees.info\/en\/2019\/04\/15\/good-things-happens-when-you-not-concerned-about-sounding-smart\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Good Things Happens When You Not Concerned About Sounding Smart&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[11,10,9],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts","tag-indiehackers","tag-personal-mba","tag-sounding-smart","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/akhmees.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/akhmees.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/akhmees.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akhmees.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akhmees.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/akhmees.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58,"href":"https:\/\/akhmees.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions\/58"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/akhmees.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akhmees.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akhmees.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}