Introduction: What Is Humble Inquiry?
It all started with a story that Ed has told many times in the last few years:
I have never liked being told things gratuitously, especially things I already know. The other day I was admiring an unusual bunch of mushrooms that had grown after a heavy rain when an elderly woman walking her dog chose to stop.
In a loud voice she said, “Some of those are poisonous, you know.”
I replied, “I know.”
She added, “Some of them can kill you, you know.”
I must have been a sight squatting down looking at this profusion of spring mushrooms, but to this day I still wonder why she didn’t just wander over and ask, “What are you doing? What are you looking at?”
What struck me was how her need to lecture me not only offended ...
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