IT’S ALMOST ALWAYS WORTH IT

Six blind men who argue at length about what an elephant feels like, holding tight to their own views. “It’s like a rope,” says the man who touched the tail. “Oh no, it’s more like the solid branch of a tree,” contends the one who touched the trunk. And so on and so forth, and round and round they go.

The story of the blind men and the elephant is a powerful metaphor for the human tendency to cling to our own perspectives and beliefs, often to the detriment of understanding the full truth.