[Dan in Pasadena]

The wise man knows he doesn't know much. He surrounds himself with people smarter and more experienced than he and he LISTENS to them.

Professionally? About when I turned 50 I realized, "my Dad's long buried, I've got a graduate degree so I am reasonably well educated. I've been doing what I do for 30 years now so I ain't taking any more schit from anyone at work. Not gonna be confrontational, just not "taking cr@p".

Personally, I refuse to be "in trouble". You live with me (same applies to married guys), you didn't adopt me. I don't need your permission to have an opinion. Again, not confrontational just matter of fact. Only a relative few percentages live at the extreme ends on the bell curve of "smarts" the rest of us live in the big middle hump. Live with it. Its your experience and that of trusted others that may make a difference, rely on it. What else you got?