I’ve received a few responses from readers on the idea of aiming to be the hardest person in the room to offend.
My friend, Dan, offered a quote by Robert Frost to compliment this idea:
“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
I liked this. The only way we get better is to receive feedback—or views contrary to our own—with an open mind, with tolerance, with confidence, and decide for ourselves what is true.