Tuesday, August 7, 2012

10 Smart Things I've Learned from People Who Never Went to College


Great article I found in Forbes.  I hope you enjoy!



 



1.  You can learn something useful from anyone.



Whenever we find ourselves ignoring someone because we’ve already determined that they aren’t “smart” enough to say something meaningful, we’ve made a big mistake. Besides being presumptuous and arrogant, this mindset blocks out every useful thing the other person might pass along. Instead of just listening and mining the conversation for nuggets of wisdom, we allow our pre-existing bias to brand everything as  “not smart enough for me.” Incredibly bad idea. I’ve yet to meet someone who couldn’t teach me something.



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