Chapter 13

Egoless-ness

The first element of greatness is fundamental humbleness (this should not be confused with servility); the second is freedom from self; the third is intrepid courage, which, taken in its widest interpretation, generally goes with truth; and the fourth—the power to love—although I have put it last, is the rarest.

MARGOT ASQUITH

Why do you want to facilitate dialogue? Take a few minutes to think about it. What draws you to facilitation and to dialogue? Why are you reading this book? For all of our good intentions to “make things better,” there is a part of us that wants to be the hero who takes a group to the promised land. It could be a mild evangelism for preaching the gospel of collective wisdom all the way to a semi-delusional ...

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