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title: "A story I wanted to share on the web-site LinkedIn"
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Years ago, I read a book by [Steven D'Souza](https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-d-souza-5351712/)
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and [Diana Renner](https://www.linkedin.com/in/diana-renner-24895232/), titled
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"Not knowing: The art of turning uncertainty into opportunity".
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If you want to know more about that book, you can check out its page on
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Goodreads.com (because the rest of this post is not going to talk much about that book) :
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[https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18210266-not-knowing](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18210266-not-knowing)
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After reading the book, I was inspired to write a blog-post, which, generally speaking,
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was about the impact that the book had on me.
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So, fast-forward three years: Steven, who, as you recall, is co-author of the above-mentioned book,
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leaves a comment on my blog:
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> Thank you for sharing the impact of our book on you Pheng Heong.
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Your writing is honest and eloquent. Steven
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And I probably have a fan-boy moment: who is Steven in the world, and I - who am I kidding - who am I
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in the world? *that* Steven is talking to *this* me?
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But if I view Steven and I as fellow travellers into the unknown, maybe he and I are
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not that different from each other. Steven (and Diana, his co-author) may have more experience
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in life than me, but they highlight, in their book, that they do not want to be seen
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as experts about the unknown - if anything, they encourage one to explore the unknown for oneself.
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My role, then, is clear: if Steven and Diana are offering wisdom about such an adventure,
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so to speak, then I can be, and I am, happy to receive that wisdom. (despite the discomfort,
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and even dread, that encountering the unknown often engenders in me).
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It may be that I have my individual, unique, experience of the unknown to undergo,
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but I am happy to have the wisdom that Steven and Diana have distilled, via their book,
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to bear in mind, all the while.
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You can view my above-mentioned blog-post here:
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[http://phtan.github.io/blog/post/2016-05-06-not-knowing/](http://phtan.github.io/blog/post/2016-05-06-not-knowing/)
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*This post was originally intended for publication on the social-media web-site LinkedIn,
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but what I've prepared for that web-site was somehow lost. Now I type a new draft,
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and post it first on this current Internet-address, with plans to subsequently post, or syndicate,
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it (back) to LinkedIn.*
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