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I have become comfortably dumb
Daily Meditation 621–11/8/2023
We are all prideful Narcissists to our core. It is all but part and parcel to the human experience.
Many reading this (and even I, writing it) will have a portion of their consciousness crying out, “Not I! I am neither proud nor a Narcissist…” which, ironically, is the very thing they are disclaiming.
The greatest example is oneself in the group.
It doesn’t matter if we are with friends, family, classmates or strangers, nearly all of us will strive to appear wiser, more knowledgeable, funnier, etc.
Long-and-short — we act like know-it-alls.
And, hilariously, maybe you are the “Hermione Granger” of whatever group and you really do know many things…
But, it isn’t important to be the smartest, funniest, or wisest.
In whichever place or position we find ourselves, it is better for us to make ourselves intentionally dumber.
I don’t mean you pretend you don’t know something or understand something.
I mean you ascend to a new level by asking questions to seek that next stage of knowledge.
It is in questions that we are made wiser, not in showing of our known answers.
Become dumb, unknowing. Seek for wisdom in questioning constantly and never assuming the form of the know-it-all.
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These are distillations from my coming book “YouDaimonia: the Philosophy of Human Flourishing.”
