o-pin-ion (noun) 1. A view or judgment formed about something, not necessarily based on fact or knowledge.
I can remember receiving a call from my daughter during the first month of her freshman year of college. She said; “Dad, I feel so overwhelmed when I talk to my classmates (she was at an Ivy League School), they have an opinion about everything and I don’t and I feel so dumb.”
Little did she know having an opinion about something is often a person’s attempt to cover his shallowness and/or “dumbness.”
The Proverb for today reminded me of this situation with my daughter. It took me many years to realize the need to have an opinion was really a need to cover up my own shallowness and stupidity. Once I tried not to have an opinion (see definition above), I began to have my eyes opened to a world I never knew existed.
Seek first to understand then to be understood is a great way to accelerate the depth of your knowledge and wisdom.
P.E.A.C.E.
Proverbs 18:2, “Fools find no pleasure in understanding but delight in airing their own opinions.”
