An Observation

When I think about why it is that I privileged intelligence over kindness, and what about my socialization influenced that choice, I realize there were a lot of messages which conspired to inform my (bad) priorities, like treating intelligence and goodness as virtually synonymous concepts, and regarding intellect as aspirational and kindness as optional, but perhaps nothing was as important as this: I was taught way more about how to be compliant than I was about how to be kind.