Making a Crack in the Mind

From the Ship of Fools Tarot, the Five of Swords; from the Wisdom of the Four Winds, Sunset:

Intellectual humility involves understanding that we can’t fully trust our beliefs and opinions because we might be relying on faulty or incomplete information or are incapable of understanding the details.

—Mark Leary

The fool smiles because he won the argument, but what he doesn't yet realize is that he's lost all of his friends. Intellectual humility acknowledges that we could be wrong, no matter how much we think we know. Choosing not to be an expert allows us to expand our knowledge and understand new perspectives. This trait takes some effort to develop - we naturally bow up and become defensive when others question what we accept as truth. Yet being open-minded opens up new avenues of thoughts and ideas and helps us sustain our relationships. Sunset suggests it's time to let go of our need to be an expert on everything. It might help us to use the fictional Armand Gamache's statements he teaches his new recruits: "I don't know. I need help. I'm sorry. I was wrong."