What do you mean?

“I don’t know” is a phrase I am beginning to appreciate more and more. 

What I’ve realized in the past couple of weeks is I don’t really know a lot about lots of things. I have an opinion on things I shouldn’t have an opinion on because I don’t know enough about it to form an educated opinion. One might say I have “nickel knowledge”—knowledge that is very limited, but just enough to make one feel one understands a topic enough to speak on it. 

I started thinking back to when I felt that saying “I don’t know” was a