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Friday, January 29, 2010

You can’t lead where you won’t go and you can’t teach what you don’t know. This was something my father used to say all of the time. I can’t find its source. I’d like to believe that my Dad was the first to say it, but I wouldn’t be surprised if he heard it from someone first. Any suggestions on sources would be most appreciated.

That being said, I think this philosophy can take a person a long way.  There’s a lot of truth in this basic tenet. How can you ask someone to do something you haven’t done yourself? How can you tell something you aren’t aware of?

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