{"id":195,"date":"2012-07-31T09:02:57","date_gmt":"2012-07-31T09:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.power2improve.com\/c78-english-uk\/c85-blog\/humbled-by-kid\/"},"modified":"2016-11-01T11:35:25","modified_gmt":"2016-11-01T09:35:25","slug":"humbled-by-kid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.power2improve.com\/en\/blog\/2012\/07\/31\/humbled-by-kid\/","title":{"rendered":"Humbled by kid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kids say the darnest things. So they say (adults, that is). I disagree. Kids speak the truth as they know and see it.<\/p>\n<p>They humble us with questions that show us how little we actually know. And often times they show us the better way out a situation.<\/p>\n<p>For example the kid of a law professor at Harvard that sat in on a class of his dad. The law professor served a case &#8220;You and your business partner get into a dispute. What do you do?&#8221;. The bright students discussed many approaches for taking this to court. 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