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Topic - Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? For most jobs or areas of work, understanding the limits of your knowledge is more important than the knowledge you have. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

Knowledge and experience determined success in job. Understanding the nature of work we do and having required skills to complete it is more important than merely completing the task. Due to peer pressure and fear of failures, many a times people take shortcuts to do their job and that often results into bad quality of work. I agree that understanding the limit of our knowledge is more important in many parts of our life.

First, it is good to prevent bad outcomes later if not immediately. Often, when assigned a task in the job, people just try to complete it by any means. There may be many reasons to it like tight deadlines of the project or the dependency of other teams. However, in the rush to finish the task, they do not first analyse or consider all angles and corner cases of the problem. Even though, they might not have required knowledge needed to complete the task more efficiently, they just complete it with many in-efficiencies that might uncover later. I will explain this by my personal experience. In my previous company, one of my colleagues was assigned a task to figure out a best framework for the new project. He was aware of one from his previous experience and thus never tried to look at new emerging frameworks. After the project is released in production, as soon as customer tried the feature, a lot of issues were raised. As a result, we had to redesign the feature again. If he would have acknowledge his limited knowledge, the project would not have caused any problem.

Second, it helps us grow. Accepting something which we do not know is the first step towards learning and growth. Some people fear accepting limitations and do not try to improve because they think that others might not take it well. It is obvious that people grow only when they know their limitation and try to acquire required skills. if not now, it helps them in the future to achieve success. For instance, When I first joined a software company, I was not aware of how to use one of the tool to debug code. Rather than carrying away with spoon feeding from seniors, I learned that tool on my own. Consequently, it helped me grow in my career because team considered me competitive and get to go person for similar issues.

In conclusion, acknowledging limitation is essential because it not only helps us prevent bad results in future but also helps us grow.