Shut Up Sometimes...

"Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has discovered an idea and thinks it's his own"
 --Sydney J. Harris


They have always said that curiosity killed the cat. I agree, because when you snoop around in something you don't have any business in, it usually comes back to burn you. However, I'm wondering if something else assisted in killing the cat. The something else I'm thinking about is arrogance. Think about it. The only reason the cat would venture into whatever is spiking his curiosity, has to be that he is CONVINCED that nothing bad can result of it. Take it like when your boo leaves to run to the store and leaves the oh so precious BlackBerry behind and you're CONVINCED that you have enough time to do a little Snoop Trooping...until they come back and you're stuck with the "I can explain" face.

Arrogance can kill you or your most precious idea. In business and in your personal life it's important to remain humble or that'll be the main ingredient in the next pie you eat. No matter how you live your life, it's not fair to judge other people or believe that your idea and your say so is "above" someone else's. Better than, that's ok. More realistic, cool. Finacially feasible, even better. But know that nobody can be right all the time...not even you. Even if everybody around you is wrong, and you not only believe but know and have proof that what you are saying is the way to go, being ignorantly obnoxious is not going to get people to see things your way.

Take example from our president. In his recent interview with Oprah, he was asked how he felt about the criticism from supporters and non-supporters and how it affects him personally.The president responded by saying that he knows what he's doing is correct and firmly stands by his decisions. He included that he can't convince or force people to believe that what he's doing is right. He can only continue to do right and eventually that light will shine. Now he was also humble enough to say that if it turns out he is wrong, he will accept the repurcussions and not try to spin his way out of it ( sneak diss to George Dubyah, and that's why I love my president).

I said that to say that we all have recieve criticism from different areas in life. Your mom, supervisor, boyfriend, child, friend, neighbor or whoever and we can't please everybody. It's ok to have confidence in how you live your life or what you believe in, but be real enough to know that we all are human and capable of being wrong. Be open to hear other people's ideas because you never know what knowledge or advantages somebody else can offer you. If you walk around like you're indestructible, it's only gonna hurt that much more when you fall down.