I've always been pretty uninformed about many areas of life: business, financial workings, politics (until the last several years), history, most literature, social workings, sports, etc. I'd often realize that efforts I might make to join the conversation turned out to reflect my lack of knowledge. For the kinds of people that I'd been around,...many smart and sincere...I thought that people with definite opinions had a lot more information than I did. I guess I felt that, generally speaking, the people that I was around had a collective understanding that I just didn't know.
I often felt very stupid...not for extended periods but briefly and ever so DEEPLY. I often wondered, "What is wrong with me?"
But something that somewhat surprised me was when I began to realize that some people with definite opinions would change their minds!? Wow! One person's explanation was just that they "got more information".
Hmmmm...I thought that was always a given likelihood.
Maybe I wasn't so stupid after all.
