There is some bliss in ignorance but humans need to fight along the way as well, to be challenged and to keep our claws and minds sharp and ready by always searching. Being ignorant is sometimes unavoidable, but choosing to stay that way in an era when information is available is laziness.

Yet, not knowing is a blessing in its own right, not in the least because it will spare your feelings not forcing you to deal with things, like you’re somehow too soft or fragile to handle the truth as the “ignorance is bliss” maxim would suggest, but because not knowing is a good place to start, much better than believing you know and refusing to grow on account of this omniscience. When you don’t know it’s good because you can accept there are things to learn (if you admit your inadequacy of course) but the shame of losing face or authority can stop you here. If you don’t know any better there is a possibility that you’ll create something so beautiful and original that could have never been produced were you bound by the norm and rigidity of structured “knowledge” on the subject. Not knowing but deciding you’ll try and learn as you go is an ode to innovation. Sure you’ll need the basics and the facts but once you get into the murky water of opinion and warning you expose yourself to more harm than good due to the fear response. Advice is almost always given with kind intention and majority of times it is distilled from a singular personal experience, not a wide comprehensive specimen of various experiences in the same area. Listen to the advice because someone is sharing a part of their wisdom but don’t take it as a necessary fact or an increase in knowledge. Get the elements to do what you need to do in order, build your skill, find as many examples as you can and listen to the various stories, they hold valuable information. What floats out as a common thread through them is most likely to be the fact about this domain. No singular story holds the whole truth because we are very subjective in viewing our own experiences.

Keep some of the not knowing with you throughout your life and stay brave because you believe enough to not be deterred by statistics, keep the 20/20 hindsight insight of others but remember that none of us see the landscape exactly as it is in photorealism and that experiences mutate and change as we do. Keep some of the original bliss of the idea you want to make real. Not everything you hear will be valuable, not everything you believe is true. Be smart about your ignorance.