Discuss ideas

You’ve likely heard this saying before: “ Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people”. It’s often attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt, but seems to track back to Henry Thomas Buckle, as explained in this great research about it.

While I’ve heard and appreciated that quote for a while, it’s only recently that I’ve begun to see people through that lens. Not that I’m noticing the “average” or “small”…