...What about MY Idea...

It is always interesting seeing how people exchange ideas. For the most part, the idea exchange for the majority of the population is not much of an exchange at all. It's mostly 'my idea is best, take mine'. That's why you see people so often talking over one another often times interrupting each other. No one is listening to another person's idea because they are too busy propagate their own ideas.

Of course, it is part of basic human nature, part of the ego to express itself. It is very instinctual and reactive. Very low on the food chain on the hierarchy of needs. It is more about the needs of 'self' than the needs of the greater whole.

Watching political pundits on MSNBC is a classic example. Most are so aggressive and believing that their view is right that they just speak over one another and often times the overlap literally became noise. How ironic.

An intellectual brilliance would not just listen to their own ideas and then giving themselves a pat on the back. They would strive to listen without the ego tied to the process of other's ideas, and make judgments to whether the ideas have validity. That is something that I strive for as well. Not always easy. One reason I support Barack for president is because he is an example of this patience and intellectual brilliance.