Just about everyone is both smarter than me, and more stupid than me.
SMARTER THAN ME
I can always find one or several areas of life where they are smarter than me.
There is some area… they know more about than me. They are more familiar with than me. Where they are more mature than me. Where they are more healed than me.
Always, there is more than one area. And always, there are far more areas I don’t know about than the ones I do. It’s just a matter of time before I find one more, and one more.
This is independent of age, education, occupation, gender, ethnicity, and any other characteristic.
That’s why, when I meet someone, I often wonder… what can I learn from this person? What do they know – in how they live their life or other skills – that I don’t?
MORE STUPID THAN ME
Similarly, everyone I meet is more stupid than me in one or more areas.
There is always one or more areas that I am more familiar with, or have more skills, or am a little more mature or healed, and so on.
For this reason, I don’t need to feel inferior or that I am not good enough.
Of course, it’s not about stupidity. It’s just about experience and how we are put together.
EVERYONE IS A MIRROR
More essentially, everyone is a mirror.
I can take any story I have about the other, turn it to be about myself, and find genuine and specific examples of how it’s true. I can find how it’s true here and now, at the moment I have the thought about the other. And I can find examples from the past where it was true.
What I see in the other is something I know from myself, whether I notice or not.
And it is a relief to notice.