What a way to describe a human being! And yet how many times have we described ourselves or others as idiots? When you’ve made an obvious mistake, do you feel like an idiot? When others can’t understand something or are slow or confused, do you judge them as idiots? How are we going to fess up to our foolishness, if we condemn ourselves? And how can some of us also face becoming impaired by illness, age or anxiety, if we judge cognitive loss as shameful? Let’s stop denying our mistakes and impairments. Let’s stop blaming others and covering up. We are all idiots sometimes, and some of us are
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