Amber Waves: Admitting You Don't Know Is the Key to Growth
“ The eye should learn to listen before it looks. ” - Robert Frank Mahatma Gandhi, best known for his contribution to the Indian Independence Movement through non-violent resistance, once taught us to, “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” Stunning as it seems, Gandhi speaks two Stoic truths here. The first is memento mori, to remember our deaths are inevitable and unpredictable, so we should live as though it's our last moments on earth, with our words and actions fitting how we desire to be remembered. The second is that we need to keep learning all through our days. As soon as we either think we know it all or that we cease being intellectually curious, we are essentially done. We will progress no further. And sadly, I almost fell into that trap with this this week's photograph. Fortunately, I remembered my Epictetus, as I wrote about in my post from March 26, 2022... ...