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Several times during their general session talk this morning, Lee and Bob Woodruff mentioned everything that isn’t known about traumatic brain injury. They don’t know why Bob healed as well as he did; they don’t know why he heard certain things while he was in a coma but not others; they don’t know why some words come back to him while other still remain frustratingly absent.

They provide a powerful example of how important it is to remember that we don’t know everything. When going about our day to day work, we need to remember that we don’t know what will happen. When it does happen, we won’t know all the reasons why. If we forget that and fall into the trap of thinking we do know it all … we close our minds to possibilities and will eventually fall into some kind of hole that we didn’t anticipate.

It reminds me a favorite quote of mine, from Oliver Cromwell: “I beseech thee … consider that ye may be mistaken.”