Speak and Teach On What You Know For Sure

 When you speak and teach what you truly love, you never have to worry about being tripped up. Nobody can shake you when you stand on what you know and what’s rooted in your heart.

The moment you try to communicate something you don’t really understand, or worse, something that isn’t in you, you leave yourself wide open. You can be exposed in a debate, embarrassed in a casual conversation, or caught contradicting yourself. That’s the price of speaking from the surface instead of from the soul.

Too many people grab a headline and try to run with it like they’re experts. But if someone who has actually studied that subject or lived it walks in the room, they will reveal how shallow you are. That lesson is hard but necessary: you must get out of the habit of being a surface dweller.

Trust me—there is always somebody in the audience who knows more than you. In fact, in life, there will always be someone who has walked deeper into a subject than you have. That’s not a threat; that’s reality.

The mistake comes when you pretend to be what you’re not. When you pontificate as if you’re the authority on something you’ve barely scratched the surface on, and you not only risk being challenged—you risk losing credibility.

So here’s the charge: speak only from what you know, what you’ve lived, and what you love. Speak from the depth of your experience and your passion. Just speak on what you are passionate about! Simple.

Because when you teach and speak from that place, your words will always stand. And you’ll never have to pay the penalty of being shallow.