[by Barry Schwartz]
No matter how much you know, how many problems you’ve solved, or how ready you are for whatever comes, there’s always more to learn. Professionals are never really finished being students.
Rather than an ongoing horror, it’s actually a beautiful thing.
For entrepreneurs like ourselves, you get used to never knowing it all. When you have to learn something new – and you will – your career won’t come crashing down around your head.
Because you have learned how to learn.
Could be that thing you’re terrified of: picking up the phone and cold-calling. Learning HTML. Diving deeper in to social media marketing. Learning a new lighting technique. Developing a new elevator pitch. Re-working your website. (Again!)
You’ve added something to your toolbox, and that is a beautiful thing because it makes you someone who can charge a fair fee because – wait, here it comes – you’re worth it.
Barry Schwartz is a photographer, writer, and designer in Los Angeles whose toolbox is pretty banged up after all these years, but finds it comforting that clients aren’t hiring the toolbox, they hire they guy who carries it around. www.barryschwartzphotography.com