As I began researching this morning's quote, I ran into the following. It is a little different direction than planned but, I think it gets to the heart of the message. Here it is verbatim:
The More We Learn, the Less We Know
by Deb DeArmond
Have you ever observed the evolution of how our children think about us as they move through life? The story goes like this.......
- At age 5, the little boy says, "That's my dad! He's the smartest man in the whole world.
- At 10 years old, he says, "That's my dad. He's a really smart guy!"
- The pre-teen at 12 says, "My dad is okay."
- At 15, he warns, "That's my dad. He's a total idiot - just ignore him."
- At 20, he says, "My dad's not a total loser."
- At 30, the young man says, "My dad might know."
- At 40, the adult son says, "I'm gonna ask my dad what he thinks."
- "I'm not making a decision till I talk to my old man," the mid-life man of 50 says.
- At 60, he says sadly, "Man I wish my dad was still alive. He'd know what to do."
If you've ever been down this road with your children, you know it can be a challenging place. As teenagers, kids really do believe they know all that needs to be known. You have to be a lot older to "know what you don't know".
How does that happen? As youth, our sphere of life is very limited. And then life happens and moves us beyond our zone of the familiar. Maturity develops from the lessons that our mistakes teach us. And at some point, we get that flash of understanding: "I know very little and have so much growing left to do".
The more we learn, the greater our realization is of how much we still don't know.
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Keep learning always realizing there is so much more we can learn if we want to.
