One thing that never ceases to amaze me about Eric Hoffer was, his affinity for the truth. Just follow this quote of his words from the Calvin Thomkins biography, Eric Hoffer, Page 65: “I’m not uncommon, you see. I’m a common man, and proud of my commonness. But talent is common too—it’s all around us, only most of the time it gets wasted. You can’t judge the intelligence, the talent of the American working masses by talking with them; you have to work with them to know that. I’ve worked with these people for forty-five years, and I never cease to learn from them.”
My response: Hoffer the brilliant, genius longshoreman philosopher, knew that he was a little smarter than others, but not that much. He was a common man and so were they—his way of saying all people are more or less equal. Every one of them is oozing with talent, and he learned from them every day. Their talent and developed excellence may be verbally shared, or it might by demonstrated by their work effort, or the actions they undertook, but all are laden with ability, if they would learn to maverize to actualize such remarkable potential.
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