An explorer discovered a beautiful unsettled site at the foot of a mountain. He marked the spot on his map, and went back to the city for supplies. His plan was to establish a settlement there.

When he returned to the spot nine months later, someone had already begun construction. The explorer thought to himself, “Well, you might have settled it, but I discovered it.”

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We credit ourselves the truths we wordlessly intuit, but credit others only what they articulate.