When you meet someone new, there is undoubtedly part of their personality or their life or their knowledge that is amazing. It might be something you discover right away, but often it’s not and you need to find out what it is.
In his book “Excellent Advice for Living“, author Kevin Kelly says it roughly the same way:
Every person you meet knows an amazing lot about something you know virtually nothing about. It won’t be obvious and your job is to discover what it is.
There is no one on this planet that is the smartest person in every category. Donald Trump may think that he’s smarter than everyone in dozens of categories, but that’s clearly not true. In fact, you can go the other way and see how there is no single person on the planet that could build something as simple as a computer mouse. It takes lot of people doing their part with excellence in order for it to all come together.
You may consider yourself to be quite smart, or maybe you don’t, but either way the person that you just met has amazing knowledge about something that you don’t, and finding out what it is will be awesome for both of you.
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