Reverence
Growing up average taught me to yield. Whenever you're unsure of your expertise, entrust a more competent person to help or take on the task entirely. I'm a jack of many, not all, trades. I'm fairly decent at many things but I do not know if I'd call myself a master of any. I'm normally obsessed with conversations that entail a person 'nerding out' about something they know a lot on or are obsessed with. A friend of mine once described how he gauged knowledge and intellect in others; "If I can learn anything from you, it means you're smart.". It's a fair metric in my opinion because. If you're proficient enough at doing something that you can teach it, it automatically means that you're knowledgeable to some degree on it. If you can dumb down complexities to a stranger to them you're intelligent enough to bridge the gap between ignorance/ incompetence and knowledge. I grew up a clumsy, careless and inattentive boy. Subject to ...
