A character shares how a Walt Whitman quote on a wall changed how he saw being underestimated. He realized the people who dismissed him were never curious enough to ask questions. The insight reframes their judgment as their own failure, not his.
You know, Rupert, guys have underestimated me my entire life. And for years, I never understood why. It used to really bother me.
And if you're the one who's underestimated, oh, my gosh. Is that an opportunity of strength?
Then one day, I was driving my little boy to school, and I saw this quote by Walt Whitman. It was painted on the wall there. It said, be curious, not judgmental. I like that. So I get back in my car, and I'm driving to work, and all of a sudden, it hits me. All them fellas that used to belittle me, not a single one of them were curious. And I realized that they're underestimating me. Who I was had nothing to do with it. Because if they were curious, they would ask questions.
You know.
Questions like, have you played a lot of darts?
