This is a test. It’s only for smart people. The smarter the better.
Instructions:
1. Take out a piece of paper and pen/cil
2. Draw a square about 4 inches by 4 inches
3. Label this square “All things that can be known.”
4. Next, draw a square within the first square that represents everything you know.
5. Calculate the area of the first square covered by the second and express it as a rough percentage.
6. Now, ask yourself “how important it is for me to always appear to be right?”
7. If you’re still reading this, ask yourself “what is my new perception of the relative value of curiosity over certainty?”
8. Finally, ask yourself “how can reading for mastery, active listening, improved questioning, and respectful silence as others share their perspectives grow my second square?”
Share your answers with the rest of the class.
BUILT TO LEAD 
Jim,
Could you publish a test for those of us that are not so smart, I had to stop reading after you first comment….…..
As I connect with people throughout the day, I often remind myself of the times I have screwed up in my life, and the potential I have for screwing up again – and how, if given different circumstances, different parents, a different culture than the one I was raised, different friends, different job situations, etc. Then perhaps, I too, might respond to life as the person I happen to be dealing with at that moment. Whether that is a superior, subordinate, client, family member, friend….
To point 8, I would add “humble understanding.”
A relatively unknown English Reformer, John Bradford, uttered an often referred to phrase, “There but for the grace of God, goes I (John Bradford).”