Think about it. If I come to you with the attitude, Teach me who you are, what does that say about you and me? It says that I don’t fully know who you are. You exist outside my knowledge and experience of people. You could very well be outside my comfort zone. Most of all, you are different, and that poses a challenge to me. I can’t assume that you are like me. Coming to know you may change the way I think. What if I find out you exist outside my categories of people? What if I find out that I actually like you when I am not supposed to based on social or religious prejudices? What am I going to do then? It puts me in a very vulnerable place to ask you to teach me about who you are.

To say: Teach me who you are automatically makes me a learner. I’m not only willing to be exposed to you; I want to learn from you. I want to sit at your feet. I want you to tell me what your life is like. I want to know what the world looks like to you what I look like to you. What is it like standing inside your shoes?

How about trying it today? If we walked around with the attitude: Teach me who you are, even to those we think we know well, I bet we’d all be in for a big surprise.

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