If you’re like me you have an acquaintance with at least one if not a couple of “Know It All“.
You don’t have to ask them any questions to confirm it because they’re too busy explaining it (and everything) to you. The philosophers have told us that, “The teacher arrives when the student is ready”. Thus one way of recognizing the “Know It All” is that they not only will not listen to anything you have to say: they don’t listen to anyone.
We can look at that statement from a different angle as well.
Until a person comes to the place where they are willing to slice away a piece of their ego and say, teach me, there will be no learning. Let’s make this a bit more personal and hopefully practical. Way back in the early beginning of my life I embraced the concept that one doesn’t need to meet someone to know who they are.
I’m not talking paranormal paradigms here.
Tell me, introduce me, or give me knowledge of a person’s five closest friends and I’ll know everything I need to know about that person. Most unsuccessful people (lots of ways to define that, I know) hang out with other unsuccessful people, but people less successful then they so that they can CONTROL and be IN CHARGE of the relationship.
The successful people are always in the presence of people smarter than they are.
The worst environment to see this principle in operation is the traditional church wherein no one can be smarter, more spiritual, or deeper (whatever that means) than the pastor, priest, or Pope! And above all, don’t you dare “touch the anointed” (aka thinking you’re on par with them).
Know what I mean Gene?
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