Back in July, during a training offered by our company, we did a few short exercises meant to refresh our minds between sessions. One of them, suggested by a colleague of mine, was about communication. The idea was simple. One person would say a sentence using difficult and unusual words that were hard to memorise after hearing only once. That person would then repeat the sentence to the next person, who would try to pass it on to the next, and so on.

By the time the message reached the last person in the line, it had changed completely. The wording was different, the meaning was different, and nothing of the original message survived. Everyone had tried their best, yet each version drifted a little further from the first one. It revealed how easily our understanding can shift when we only grasp part of something instead of the whole.

Each man was correct based on his limited interaction with the elephant, even though none of them had a complete understanding of the animal. And each of their opinions was based on the part they experienced, their own small piece of the truth.

Nobody is right about everything, and everybody is right about something.