{"id":1467,"date":"2022-03-13T18:56:15","date_gmt":"2022-03-13T22:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/js1cd06kre.onrocket.site\/?p=1467"},"modified":"2022-03-13T18:56:15","modified_gmt":"2022-03-13T22:56:15","slug":"when-you-dont-have-all-the-answers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glennsreflections.com\/index.php\/2022\/03\/13\/when-you-dont-have-all-the-answers\/","title":{"rendered":"When You Don’t Have All the Answers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Randall Tallerico was terrified.

A recent college graduate, he was now a brand-new hire at Robert Solomon and Associates, a top advertising agency in Detroit. 

During his first week Robert was summoned to see Kathleen Hay, the agency\u2019s creative director.  Kathleen was juggling a phone, a cigarette, and a cup of coffee, all the while issuing orders to a stream of associates entering and departing her office.

She tossed him the layout for an ad. \u201cHere,\u201d she said.  \u201cSchlep this to production,\u201d then immediately turned to another associate.

\u201cYes, ma\u2019am,\u201d he answered \u2013 having no idea what she meant by \u201cschlep.\u201d

As Robin Koval reports in The Power of Small<\/em>: \u201cRandall retreated to his cubicle and proceeded to have a very quiet nervous breakdown.  He was about to choke his first time at bat.\u201d

Did \u201cschlep\u201d mean to Xerox something?  Or to reduce it?  He checked his marketing books.  Nothing.  Then his advertising books.  \u201cSchlep\u201d was nowhere to be found.  Could he search for it online, perhaps?  Maybe if he had a time machine \u2013 Randall\u2019s crisis was happening years before the debut of Google. 

Two hours later Randall realized he had no choice but to admit to his intimidating supervisor that he had no idea what to do.

He returned to Kathleen\u2019s office, which was still bustling with activity, and cleared his throat.  \u201cExcuse me, ma\u2019am.\u201d  Nobody heard him.  \u201cMa\u2019am?\u201d  Koval describes what happened next:

\u201c\u2019What do you want, kid?\u2019 the creative director barked when she finally noticed the young man hovering nervously in front of her.  \u2018I \u2013 I \u2013 I don\u2019t know what it to means to schlep.\u2019\u201d

Kathleen Hay began to laugh so hard she had to put down her coffee.  She dialed Robert Solomon \u2013 the big boss \u2013 and told him to come to her office.  Tallerico looked for a place to hide.  Everyone in the agency, from the CEO to the parking lot attendant, was going to find out he was an idiot.

Solomon came into the room.  \u201cThe new kid doesn\u2019t know what \u2018schlep\u2019 means,\u201d Hay said.  The boss shook with laughter.  \u201c\u2019Kid,\u2019 said Kathleen, at long last.  \u2018It\u2019s Yiddish [the language of many European Jews].  It means to bring<\/em>.  Just bring it to production.\u2019\u201d

Then she said something wonderful: \u201cAnd don\u2019t worry, you\u2019re gonna do great here.  It\u2019s good to speak up when you don\u2019t know the answer.\u201d

It\u2019s good to speak up when you don\u2019t know the answer.<\/em>

Randall Tallerico\u2019s humility turned an apparent nightmare into what Koval calls \u201cthe moment that forever endeared him to his bosses.\u201d  And yes, he did have a great career at Robert Solomon and Associates.

A Chinese proverb says it best: \u201cHe who asks a question is a fool for five minutes.  He who does not remains a fool forever.\u201d

Christians are People of the Book.  The Bible is a vast library of history, poetry, biography, and ethics.  It is our sourcebook for God\u2019s enduring word to humanity.  But (to put it gently) a great number of those who profess to follow Jesus are biblically illiterate. 

Is this because of ignorance, apathy, amnesia, poor teaching, or laziness?  All of the above. <\/em>

What should we do?

It\u2019s never too late to admit that you don’t have all the answers and need some help understanding Scripture.

So, dump your pride.  Put up your hand.  Ask for help. 

Then schlep with joyful abandon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Randall Tallerico was terrified. A recent college graduate, he was now a brand-new hire at Robert Solomon and Associates, a top advertising agency in Detroit.  During his first week Robert was summoned to see Kathleen Hay, the agency\u2019s creative director.  Kathleen was juggling a phone, a cigarette, and a cup of coffee, all the while issuing orders to a stream… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1468,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[109],"class_list":["post-1467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-study"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glennsreflections.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glennsreflections.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glennsreflections.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glennsreflections.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glennsreflections.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1467"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/glennsreflections.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1469,"href":"https:\/\/glennsreflections.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1467\/revisions\/1469"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glennsreflections.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glennsreflections.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glennsreflections.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glennsreflections.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}