{"id":64044,"date":"2025-08-13T02:44:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T02:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/64044\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T02:44:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T02:44:08","slug":"why-admitting-you-dont-know-something-is-career-crucial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/64044\/","title":{"rendered":"Why admitting you don\u2019t know something is career crucial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I applied to Cambridge university, my first interview was with a professor who invited me to sit, pressed his fingertips together, looked at me searchingly, then said: \u201cIs the nation-state in decline?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>My heart fell. Not only did I not know the answer, I didn\u2019t even really understand the question. But I had heard \u2014 possibly from my state school, or else from the university \u2014 that these interviews were \u201cnot testing what you know, but how you think\u201d. So I took a breath and said: \u201cI\u2019m not sure what a nation-state is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"-_137dbe642694dac0-source\">Financial Times<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When I applied to Cambridge university, my first interview was with a professor who invited me to sit,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64045,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-64044","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-au","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}