ARE YOU MR. KNOW ALL ?

1. When you find a person who is so full of himself that he seeks to bring every viewpoint and argument round to his personal point of view, you have met Mr. Know All.
2. Using this paradigm as a takeoff, you could examine whether there are areas in which your considerable (considerably little) knowledge makes you behave like one, because it is those who are not aware of their ignorance who tend to show arrogance in their little knowledge.
3. People often seem to labour under the false belief that they know all that is needed for their existence, and like to project an image of versatility, wide-knowledge and all-round competence, which often results in the further belief that they must be right and gives them the authority to keep others down.
4. However, this blocks their own prospects for learning and growth by assuming that they must appear all-knowing and always right.
5. Little knowledge makes one more stubborn in defending it, aided further by our basic sense of insecurity and fear of vulnerability, but we should realize that ignorance is only a matter of degree, and those who pretend to know, close the door on learning.