[e-nspirations] On Being Teachable

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To know and yet think we do not know is the highest attainment. Not to 
know and yet think we do, is a disease.
-- Lao-tzu
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When we know and think we do not know we remain open. We are teachable. It 
is not always easy to maintain the stance of one who learns: to be respectful 
and to keep our minds pliable, to be listening instead of formulating clever 
rebuttals, and to have humility when humiliation is feared.

When we think we know all there is to know about a subject we are un-teachable. 
It's easy to act as though we know. We are encouraged to have confidence, to 
stand fast in our position in an argument, to have the right answers under fire. 
This dis-ease causes us to be stagnant and stubborn.

It only takes three words to cure this disease: "I don't know."

by Jean Kelley

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